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How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Sand?

Posted 5/26-08

U.S. Economic Agenda and Iraq

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And it isn't over yet. U.S. plans are a lot more far-reaching and not secret at all. The U.S. intends to reshape the politics and establish American hegemony over the entire region. That is really what democratizing them means. It means hand picking their government and making it one that recognizes American hegemony over their oil.

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The more people feel wars are "just" the less of a psychiatric problem society will have with conducting them so the U.S. administration does the best job it can to sell their wars as necessary. It requires very sophisticated public relations and the Bush administration has been very good at it.

But no matter how well they sell the Iraq war the facts are it was necessary to invade Iraq for economic reasons. It really had NOTHING to do with "humanitarian concerns" and very little to do with those illicit and insidious weapons of mass destruction. Everyone in this administration knows there really was "no imminent threat" or even a "gathering threat" as the Bush administration likes to call it - but the U.S. national interest is at the heart of this unprovoked war of aggression against the Iraqi people.

AND there also was really little concern by the French, the Germans, China or Russia about "humanity" or "weapons of mass destruction". They also have economic concerns and interests. They opposed the war in Iraq because their interests were directly threatened by the U.S. agenda. The U.S. national interest and policy revolves around profits and the globalization of American capital. The U.S. will take license to go anywhere, at anytime to insure its economic agenda and the invasion of Iraq was all about Economics, the Euro, Oil, and Projecting Power in West Asia all of which are very much in the U.S. national interest and George Bush's imperialistic ambitions.

There is a terrible humanitarian cost

to pursuing imperialistic ambitions

"The 1991 U.S. attack on Iraq in the name of evacuating Kuwait only caused a terrible immediate loss of life but systematically and deliberately devastated the entire civilian infrastructure of Iraq. Eleven years of sanctions (it was ultimately 13 years of murderous sanctions) have already wreaked unparalleled devastation of the country's economic life and effected what a senior UN official termed "genocide" by systematically starving the country of elementary needs. Iraq is not free to spend the earnings from sale of its own oil in the way it wishes. `No-fly zones' and repeated bombings devoid of all legal cover have violated the country's sovereignty and security. Under U.S.-U.K. protection, pro-U.S. Kurdish forces hold sway in northern Iraq. In the guise of `weapons inspection,' brazen espionage has been carried out by the United States, U.K., and Israel." [(RUPE) Research Unit for Political Economy - "Behind the Invasion of Iraq" 2003 - Monthly Press]

Before the invasion Iraq had announced it's intention to switch to the new EURO standard and get off the American Dollar standard, which caused a lot of discomfort for George Bush who is mismanaging an already faltering economy.

Long Term Consequences of the American Agenda

Many veterans bare the scars of America's wars. The VA hospitals are full of vets suffering from:

"..combat shell-shock, war neurosis, effort syndrome, battle fatigue, acute combat stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, and most controversially, Gulf War syndrome - but they all essentially describe the same phenomenon: the human mind buckling from intolerable stress and the psychic wear-and-tear of witnessing and committing dehumanizing acts." [Joy Press, "Shell-Shock and Awe....." April 9 - 15, 2003 Village Voice - http://www.villagevoice.com/]

The war was supposed to be fast and the weapons precise, but more and more it is becoming obvious that the boots on the ground in Iraq are confronting the reality of a very imprecise war on civilians and soldiers and there has been a lot of killing.

While estimates vary in the thousands, whole Iraqi army units, full of involuntary conscripts are now missing. Granted some fled the battle, but what of those who didn't? They were obliterated. We have those kinds of weapons. They're our weapons of mass destruction but they are considered legal by the United States because a super-power can do almost anything it wants and who is going to object?

Young men and women have been taught the art of war and have experienced for the very first time the experience of taking someone else's life - and the process can't help but leave deep psychological scars which will never fully heal.

When there is time to think, for those with moral concerns, the only "shock and awe" will be to their emotional well being.

"[The] 'shock and awe' was supposed to eliminate or disable the bad guys, leaving invading ground troops the feel-good task of rounding up grateful Iraqi soldiers and basking in the warm welcome offered by an overjoyed populace." [Press]

It is Not Over Yet

"The Bush administration is actively considering invading various countries and replacing regimes in the entire region--Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Lebanon are among the countries to be targeted." [RUPE]

"Control of petroleum resources and pipeline routes is obviously a central consideration in U.S. imperialist designs worldwide--note the long-term installation of U.S. forces from Afghanistan through Central Asia to the Balkans; the entry of U.S. troops in the Philippines and the pressure on Indonesia to involve the United State in a campaign against Islamic fundamentalists in the region; the drive for U.S. military intervention in Colombia and the attempt to oust Chavez in Venezuela. (The systematic drive by the United States in northern Latin America has close parallels with its campaign in West Asia.) The United States is particularly anxious to install a large contingent of troops near Saudi Arabia, anticipating the collapse of, or drastic change in, the regime there. Saudi Arabia has the world's greatest stock of oil wealth. Indeed the United States is contemplating using the invasion of Iraq as a springboard for a drastic political `cleansing' of the entire region, along the lines of the process long under way in the Balkans and continuing in Afghanistan-Pakistan. Indeed, it is even willing to provoke, by its invasion of Iraq, uprising in other states of the region in order to provide it with an occasion to invade these states. All this is not speculation, but has been explicitly spelled out in various policy documents authored by or commissioned by those now in charge of the U.S. military and foreign policy." [RUPE]

Iraq is an Economic Bonanza!

Iraq has the world's second largest oil reserves which is presently at 115 billion barrels, but it is expected that now that will go to 220-250 billion barrels - and it is according to experts, one of the cheapest to extract. Iraq is an economic bonanza.

Misinforming the Masses and National Agendas

"Not only is the United States increasingly dependent on West Asian oil for its own consumption; its capture of West Asian oil is also intended to secure its supremacy among imperialist powers." [(RUPE) Research Unit for Political Economy - "Behind the Invasion of Iraq" 2003 - Monthly Press]

"The global crisis of overproduction is showing up the underlying weakness of the United States real economy, as a result of which U.S. trade and budget deficits are galloping. The euro now poses a credible alternative to the status of the dollar as the global reserve currency, threatening the United States' crucial ability to fund its deficits by soaking up the world's savings. The United States anticipates that the capture of Iraq, and whatever else it has in store for the region, will directly benefit its corporations (oil, arms, engineering, financial) even as it shuts out the corporations from other imperialist countries. Further, it intends to prevent the bulk of petroleum trade from being conducted in euros and thus maintain the dollar's supremacy (in military terms and in control of strategic resources) will prevent the emergence of any serious imperialist challenger such as the EU. In that sense the present campaign is in line with the Pentagon's 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, which called for preventing any other major power from acquiring the strength to develop into a challenger ot the United State's solitary supremacy. (A European foothold even in Iran could bring about a euro-based oil economy; this perhaps explains the puzzling inclusion of Iran in the `axis of evil.'" [RUPE]

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