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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (8690)	3/19/2004 12:33:06 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Ths big Bushie spin - America = neocons = right(wing) versus Wrong (everyone else). Trouble for Bush is, he's already the boy who cried wolf and Pinocchio. An emperor with no clothes whom most of the world and half this country sees as a disappointing, dishonest fool.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (8690)	3/19/2004 12:36:12 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 81568

Bush's War is a Financial Disaster By Eric Margolis The Toronto Star CA two primary objectives drove the U.S. invasion of Iraq: oil and its support for Israel. Sunday 14 March 2004 truthout.org The U.S. won an inevitable military triumph, but political victory remains elusive WASHINGTON -- The famous words of King Pyrrhus of Epirus after the bloody battle of Heraclea in 280 BC are as appropriate for America's conquest of Iraq: "One more such victory and we are ruined." The March, 2003 invasion of Iraq pitted the world's greatest military power against the largely inoperative army of a small, dilapidated nation of only 17 million (deducting rebellious Kurds), crushed by 12 years of sanctions and bombing. Thanks to total air superiority, invading U.S. forces achieved a brilliant feat of logistics, racing from Kuwait to Northern Iraq in under three weeks. The 15% of Iraq's army that stood and fought was pulverized by massive, co-ordinated U.S. air strikes and artillery barrages. Urban resistance failed to materialize. The rout of Iraq's forces recalled another colonial war, the Dervish Campaign of 1898. Gen. Kitchener led the imperial British Army far up the Nile into Sudan where it met and massacred a primitive Islamic host at Omdurman. Britain's quick-fire guns and artillery mowed down Dervish cavalry and sword-waving "fuzzy-wuzzies" as murderously as U.S. precision munitions vapourized Iraqi units. U.S. air and ground forces in Iraq displayed superb technical, electronic, logistic and combat prowess confirming they are two full military generations ahead of nearly all other nations. But as the great modern military thinker, Maj.-Gen J.F.C. Fuller, observed 40 years ago, the proper objective of war is not military victory but a politically advantageous peace. While the U.S. won an inevitable military victory against a nearly helpless Iraq, political victory so far remains elusive. Primary objectives In my view, two primary objectives drove the U.S. invasion of Iraq: oil and its support for Israel. White House claims about weapons of mass destruction and terrorism were propaganda smoke screens. President George Bush's claims that impotent Iraq posed "a grave and gathering danger" to the U.S., Condoleezza Rice's hysterical warnings about "mushroom clouds over the U.S.," and Vice President Dick Cheney's bizarre jeremiads about "Iraq's reconstituted nuclear weapons" were absurd. The U.S. now controls Iraq, a strategic nation with the Mideast's second largest oil reserves. The CIA estimates China's and India's surging, oil-hungry economies will cause world oil shortages by 2030 - or sooner. Accordingly, the Bush administration moved to assure America's global hegemony by seizing Mideast and Central Asian oil before the impending crisis. Doing so required occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. imports little oil from the Mideast or Central Asia. However, these regions are primary oil sources for Europe and Japan - and, increasingly, for India and China.