WHY WHACK IRAQ?
Re: I agree with you, it's for oil, but not totally. I think some small fraction
There are three legs to the stool of U.S. policy toward Iraq.
1) First and foremost, it is a demonstration of the will to Empire, as expressed in Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" and PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses". The naked aggression and capture of Iraq is the first of many such planned attacks.
2) Concomitant with the gross megalomania of the Empire scheme is the input of the neocon dual citizenship/divided loyalty crowd. An analysis of PNAC's agenda in "Rebuilding America's Defenses" looks suspiciously like it was drawn up by the Likud Party in an effort to employ the American military as the "sharp end of the spear" in removing all of Israel's enemies and all who can possibly keep the Likudniks from achieving their goal of a "Greater Israel" reaching from the Mediterranean to Mosul and from the southern suburbs of Damascus to the Red Sea. This is the grand prize envisioned by Ben Gurion, Weitzmann, Dayan, Meir and now Sharon. And so wonderful for the Americans to be so accommodating. <sinister and sly smile>
3) Oil -- This is the mother's milk of militarism. Without oil, the American war machine grinds to a halt. It's more important than the blood of the millions which will be lost in the struggle to control the world's reserves of oil wealth. Whoever dominates oil, dominates the planet. And the American corporate honchos intend to be the winners, at any and all cost. Bankrupting the homeland is not too much to ask. The "Prize" is in Eurasia. The Empire is blooming like a chrysalis emerging from its two hundred year old cocoon and unfolding its merciless wings of terror, spreading to its full height as an unbridled and fearsome combination of the preying mantis and black widow-maker arachnid archetype predator. A genetically modified, steroidally trangendered hypertrophied phantasmagoria of self-rigteousness, swagger and scandal. An all but unstoppable force, fed by the insatiability of its elite masters, and by the scandalous sycophancy of its subjugated serfs. |
