Blood for Oil?

We have a bridge for sale to those who believe that the Bush administration (neocons) want to establish democracy in Iraq.

Bush maybe, but not the cohorts running the show -- Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, and others -- are scarcely so dumb as to believe that democracy can be imposed on Iraq. What obviously is wanted there is a puppet government along the lines of our many American ones in the past, here, there, and elsewhere -- Batista's Cuba, Pinochet in Chile, Papa Doc in Haiti -- the whole assembly of oppressive regimes that were 'business friendly' to American interests in Latin America and elsewhere while keeping their own peoples subordinate to foreign (and a narrow coterie of corrupt tyrants' personal) interests. This is one of the oldest 19th and 20th century games once called colonialism, then Cold War policy, and now whatever it takes to con the public: weapons of mass destruction ---> ending terrorism ---> Iraqi freedom (to use that horrendous Fox News header. Lest we forget, this did not work in nation after nation after the formal withdrawal of the colonial armies after WW2.. Corporations replaced them in Nigeria with an alliance between the series of military juntas there and the 18 oil companies really running the place:

http://www.nipc-nigeria.org/intcomp.htm

Or check out the history of oil companies in Iran:

http://www.virginia.edu/igpr/apagoilhistory.html

The bottom line here is that no one has said ANYTHING about removing the 14 permanent U.S. military bases to be constructed in Iraq. And who will be our boy there -- Chalabi?

http://www.counterpunch.org/chalabi05202004.html

or Allawi, our CIA guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iyad_Allawi

or whomever.

The "enduring" bases are being built:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/040323-enduring-bases.htm

And guess who will be the successor to Gaddafi in Libya where Tony me-too rushed off to visit immediately after the deal was struck over Libya's nuclear stuff:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=25618

http://www.iht.com/articles/511863.html

Britain's payoff consolation prize?

I am certainly glad that my daughter, who was in the national guard, did not get ensnared in providing cover for this attempted corporate take-over in the Middle East. She was an enthusiastic supporter of our peace-keeping missions under Clinton-- is appalled by what we are doing in Iraq!

Blood for Oil?