Interesting article by Rockwell.
I wonder if the true reality is this. The younger Bush president is simply doing what his father would have done during his second term, which he never got due to Clinton's election.
The elder Bush had to stop, due to the UN, once Saddam was driven from Kuwait. After all, his coalition existed precise to liberate Kuwait, not to invade Iraq--as Iraq did to Kuwait.
Logically, what happened after the Iraq-Kuwait controversy was a new sense of fragility into the area, the door opened. Thus, it finally dawned on Western oil interests and their political insider friends, that finally an opportunity existed by which to get a foothold on Middle Eastern oil, without having to ying-yang up the wuhzoo, i.e., pay the Saudis, et. al., enormous sums.
After all, Western oil barons, in all likelihood, desire not to have an OPEC exist; rather they'd prefer to become the OPEC itself.
Consequently, new pressures were put onto the Iraqi government, using the UN as a tool via the sanctions, virtually assuring that instability would remain within Iraq, and ideally that Saddam would eventually be knocked off or toppled in some manner, or that violations so fragrant could be discovered so as to enable the US to make its move, not to liberate the Iraqi people but, er, ah, well, you've heard it before ... to get the oil!
To get the oil. That probably would have been the elder Bush's objective were he elected to a second term. It didn't happen, so the barons groomed the younger Bush to do the job. And so Cheney.
Meanwhile, the weapons of mass destruction exist elsewhere and that problem remains. How ironic. How sad it is! |
