January 8, 2007

The Real Reason

I've posted this entry twice before--but the issue keeps coming back-- like some old horror-flick-mummy that just refuses to die.
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The mindset inside the beltway is that the people in the US are stupid. The problem is, when it uses that frame of reference, Washington simply displays its own idiocy: We’re supposed to forget the fact that Bush was giving us one reason for the war in Iraq as of March, 2004, another in July and still another in October. Whenever the facts didn’t support the latest ‘reason’ he was feeding us, he just trotted out another.

The most recent one was: ‘We went into Iraq to free the people from the Evil Oppressor and establish Democracy.’
Of course, the latest doesn’t hold up either. The fact is, the US has never attacked another country in order to help it. Whenever we have invaded, it was to insure our own best interests. So—what are those interests now?

Well, here’s a surprise:
There’s oil in Iraq.
When Iraq was ruled by Saddam, we weren’t in control of that oil.
If things ever settle down there, US interests are going to be moving in in droves to manage all that oil.
The Iraqi people will be disenfranchised of the resources in their own country.
All this from their benevolent uncle who’s bringing them ‘peace and democracy’ at the end of a gun.
[see 12/18/06 for the full text]
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And now, from The Independent:
Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity
The 'IoS' today reveals a draft for a new law that would give Western oil companies a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To the victors, the oil? That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement with a major Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits for the next 30 years
Published: 07 January 2007
See here for the complete text.

5 comments:

Peaceful/Paisible said...

hello my sister nearly twin; I'm 60 and sagittarius!!!i can't understand your posts entirely (I'm French) but the general meaning of it and must say I quite agree with you...that war in Iraq is just so useless and crual...policitians have only two thing in mind their careers and profits...the older I gt, the more desillusioned I am as far as politics is concerned...i'll come back
see you
mousie

PoliShifter said...

Yep. They're just getting blatant about it now.

Fuck you to all those wingnuts who poopooed everyone who suggested years ago that the occupation was really about oil.

Wingnuts can be so stupid sometimes. Many STILL think the "cheap" oil will some day come in.

They don't get that the oil co's have been setting record profits many consecutive years in a row and we did NOT see any drop in gas prices.

Who are they kidding. Do they actually thinkt that the oil co's, out of the goodness of their heart, are going to lower fuel costs with Iraqi Oil? Hell no. That shit is going straight to the bottom line.

two crows said...

welcome, mousie--
I'm looking forward to turning 60--I'll officially break out my purple dress and red hat that day! :)
[do you know that poem?]

glad to see you here--
please do return.
tc
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yep, Poli--
if it weren't about OIL, then why haven't we exported democracy to all those african countries whose gov'ts have massacred their own people?
but, no, we've ignored those.
we're not in Iraq out of the benevolence of Uncle
Sam's heart.
tc

TomCat said...

Um..... TC..... In BushWorld, demoreacy works only in countries with exploitable resources.

two crows said...

oh, of course, TC--
how silly of me.
tc