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To: Bilow who wrote (45962)	4/17/2004 9:56:45 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Hi Bilow, As always, I admire your erudition, your forthrightness and your impeccable integrity. It's nice to see admirable qualities such as these on this thread. I do, however, have one quibble. Re: Bush's best plan would have been to set up quick elections, no matter how corrupt or bad they would be, for a constitutional convention, and immediately begin pulling out of Iraq. I believe he didn't do this because despite the lip service that the administration's plan gave to the predictions that a long and large US presence would lead to a guerilla war, the neocon thinkers really didn't believe this. Instead, all they could talk about was how well the German and Japanese occupations had gone. I take an entirely more cynical stance on this matter. As all good intellectuals must, I've studied the strategy of the Bush Administration and the shadow government behind them. What we are witnessing in Iraq is merely an extension in the imperial vision that can be more than glanced at in Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard", PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses", various papers by JINSA members, the National Security Strategy of the United States and the apocalyptic writing emanating from the likes of the AEI, Heritage Foundation, The Weekly Standard and other neo-con organs. And the critique of the same in Johnson's "The Sorrows of Empire". The game is afoot. The Evil Empire is spreading its wings and the Military Monster is bursting forth from its chrysalis of creation. Pay no attention to anything the Bush Administration says. It is all part of the Straussian effort to deceive those who want to be deceived. And sadly, that is the majority of the American public. You should prefer instead to pay strictest attention to the actions of the Bush Administration. This they cannot hide. While they lie to the American public and tell them that we are re-building Iraq, a cursory examination of the educational system in Iraq indicates that we've applied a lot of paint and plaster in the past year, but that there has been no new construction to speak of. Same thing with government administrative buildings, infrastructure, private housing, etc. And yet, the price of plywood and OSB has doubled in the U.S. in the past year because of the extraordinary one million sheets of plywood or OSB that have been shipped to Iraq. What is this being used for? For the construction of four major new permanent bases on Iraqi soil which are to permanently house several divisions of the U.S. military. Pay not one bit of attention to lip service about the UN taking charge, NATO taking charge, elections, a new constitution, hand-overs or any other such folderol. Pay strict attention to what the Bush Administration and the War Department are doing. And what they are doing is surrounding every city and town in Iraq with concertina and barbed wire, creating in situ concentration camps, and building massive military infrastructure astride the oil assets of Iraq. Keep your eye on the ball. Not on where George Bush lies about it being.