WHY WERE WE EVER IN IRAQ?
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After all these years I still have no idea what it was all about.
Even at the time conservatives would occasionally admit that the WMD rationale was horseshit. It was as if each had their own individual Great Game reason for it. There were as many reasons for the Iraq war as there were supporters of it.
I suppose, ultimately, it came down to blowing up brown people and pissing off liberals. So it was quite a success, really.
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/
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@ the same time he was meeting w/ his energy task force. Sec. of Treasury (Fired) wrote that in his book
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
"And that came up at this first meeting, says O'Neill, who adds that the discussion of Iraq continued at the next National Security Council meeting two days later.
He got briefing materials under this cover sheet. "There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, 'Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,'" adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001.
Based on his interviews with O'Neill and several other officials at the meetings, Suskind writes that the planning envisioned peacekeeping troops, war crimes tribunals, and even divvying up Iraq's oil wealth."
The entire Iraq debacle is the result of the 1% using the government they stole in 2000 and subsequent control of the military of the US as private world police force to conquer Iraq and make Iraq available for their business interests to steal Iraq's resources, subjugate the Iraqi people and place them fully under their control, profit through the complete privatization of the resources and the factors and means of production in and of Iraq, create a mass market for their goods within Iraq itself, and ultimately make Iraq into a safe strategic environment from which to run business operations and protect their interests in the region. There are various other related reasons as well, all concerns of the 1%.
OCCUPY!
First, a few looks at the Royal Corporate Castle, the US Embassy in Iraq, the HQ fortress that we built and paid for so that wealthy private interests could have a bulletproof base of operations from which to conduct business.
The Mega-Bunker of Baghdad
The new American Embassy in Baghdad will be the largest, least welcoming, and most lavish embassy in the world: a $600 million massively fortified compound with 619 blast-resistant apartments and a food court fit for a shopping mall.
Massive U.S. Embassy In Iraq Will Expand Further As Soldiers Leave 09/16/11
WASHINGTON -- American combat troops in Iraq may be heading to the exits -- or not -- but the U.S. government's enormously expensive intervention there is hardly coming to an end.
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As part of that increase, the State Department will double its complement of security contractors -- fielding a private army of over 5,000 to guard the embassy and other diplomatic outposts and protect personnel as they travel beyond the fortifications, the official said. Another 3,000 armed guards will protect Office of Security Cooperation personnel, who are responsible for sales and training related to an estimated $13 billion in pending U.S. arms sales, including tanks, squadrons of attack helicopters and 36 F-16s.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/us-embassy-iraq-state-department-plan_n_965945.html
Dennis Kucinich:
"As I have said for five years, this war is about oil. The Bush Administration desires private control of Iraqi oil, but we have no right to force Iraq to give up their oil. We have no right to set preconditions for Iraq which lead Iraq to giving up control of their oil. The Constitution of Iraq designates that the oil of Iraq is the property of all Iraqi people," Kucinich said.
http://www.alternet.org/world/63036/
Oil Workers’ Union Confronts Occupation and Privatization
Organising over 23,000 workers in the Iraq’s southern oil and gas industries, the General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE) is struggling against both the US/UK occupation and the corporate-led privatisation of Iraq’s industry.
Position on Privatisation ‘The privatisation of the oil and industrial sectors is the objective of all in the Iraqi state/government. We will stand firm against this imperialist plan that would hand over Iraq’s wealth to international capitalism such that the deprived Iraqi people would not benefit from it...we are taking this path for the sake of Iraq’s glory even if it costs us our lives. Iraqis are capable of managing the their companies and their investments by themselves’
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article870
Iraq to Privatize Electricity
An Iraqi electricity law hasn't been made public.
September 10, 2007 |
Two of Iraq's many needs right now are more electricity and more investment. A law being drafted could satisfy both, paving the way for foreign and domestic private companies to build power plants, a step toward fully privatizing the electricity sector.
"It should be short coming," a senior U.S. official working in Baghdad on Iraq's electricity sector told United Press International on condition of anonymity on the sidelines of an Iraq energy conference.
http://www.alternet.org/world/62128/
Any questions? It's not rocket science.
actually, it was because saddam hussein flew his private airplanes into the twin towers and escaped unscathed back
to iraq. we had to go after him or he would buy more planes and fly them over here again...oh, his sons flew some of
the planes too. oh, and he had nuclear weapons that could eliminate the world too.
and kill Saddam.
