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Why DID we invade Iraq?
(Elevated from a comment)
by Antifa
Why DID we invade Iraq?
Bush gave one reason, Cheney another, Condi another, the Pentagon another, the press another, Rummy and Crew another, each Congress critter cited his or her own, the tubefed multitudes all had their reasons, and new reasons are added almost daily as this thing boils over . . .
Ohhhh, Richard! It’s just too complex to ever figure out, to ever finally know — why DID we invade Iraq?
Unless . . . we talk about what goal every one of those myriad reasons points to. Let’s cook it down. What did everybody’s individual pot of justification stew have as a common ingredient? What was in every pot?
America Uber Alles. The PNAC creed.
Unspoken. Unexamined. Unquestioned.
Swallowed whole before discussion even began.
The presumption that we must come out ahead. That we deserve to be on top. Always. That America rules — or else.
That’s what we need to face, and disown, as a nation, as a people. That’s Lebensraum. That’s the Nazi creed of taking what you deem you need.
‘Or else’ is Cheney’s endless war from here on — until such time as we are stopped, just as the Nazis were stopped. That is all that lies down that road.
Are we, the American people, willing to live in this world without holding a pistol to their heads — all those variously unwashed, illiterate, multi-colored, billions of Others?
Are they all created equal, too? Are they human beings, with every one of our Declaration’s rights inborn? Do they deserve everything we deserve?
Or, are they untermenschen? Can we loot n’ shoot them, shock n’ awe, Baghdad style, and drive off into the sunset with what used to be theirs? Is everybody here . . . OK with that?
Are we, the people, willing to be one nation among a couple hundred nations? Talk things out, work things out, put the pistols down? Share? Or, is this whole planet our turf? Is Death to the Other our manifest destiny?
Nothing in America’s Declaration, Constitution, jurisprudence or international treaties asks or requires our loyalty to the PNAC creed. Quite the reverse.
With the Downing Street memo, and other papers, the recipe for this war is out in the open, and Americans of every stripe are asking themselves, who put Lebensraum in the soup?
The Project for a New American Century will get an up or down vote now, out on the street, where Frist can’t fudge or fake it.
As powerful as the sentiments that led to our first Revolution, as powerful as the sentiments that led to our Civil War, is the sentiment building among Americans today, as they realize the comic book creed of world conquest that Wolfowitz, Cheney and Rumsfeld slipped into our stew, at the cost of our entire Treasury, twice over.
An all American sentiment — aboveboard, honest, straight and sunny — just as jake as calling a foul ball when you see one.
It’s simply this:
We Don’t Want To Rule The World.
And we’re not gonna do it, Dick.
Why did we invade Iraq?
Here’s mho:
USA Today’s above the fold story is that, yes, Virginia, global warming is real, even tho Bush still doesn’t know it.
Next will be the admission that, yes, Peak Oil is also real.
The invasion of Iraq was meant to put a new and improved American puppet in place to insure total easy access to Iraqi oil that could be exploited by American and British petroleum cos, and to do that, the oil also needed to be privatized to pay off all the BushCo crooks.
Our presence now includes Afghanistan, we’re all chummy with some of the dictators in the former USSR stans, who also have natural gas, and whom we want to make sure do not favor Russia.
In addition, Israel wanted to get rid of Saddam because he was a threat to them. If Iraq devolved into civil war, it would keep sunnis and shias occupied with each other. and the kurds, well…
The OSP/Rummy totally cooked the info, just like Team B did with the threat of Russia, etc. back during Bush I…and with the same crew in place…their worldview, in other words, is, as you say, all about dominance.
I bet Wolfie’s girlfriend uses a rubber hose on him for fun, when he dresses in leather chaps…euuuwwww, what a horrific image. lick that comb, Wolfie.
I think they really screwed up vis a vis Iraq. I do not think they are as smart as they want us to believe. They screwed up because they are out-of-touch with reality, and wanted to believe Chalabi…I still don’t know whose side he’s on…his own, I suppose.
They used 9-11 to mind fuck the American people, and the American media (the ones that were not already in their pocket/on their payroll) to both go to war in Iraq and to win two elections…strangely, all those orange threats, all those scare tactics are gone now that they want to end the New Deal.
I think this invasion was part of the last gasp of an empire, not the beginnning of one, and I think, as in other places in history, as the plutocrats see the ruin of their plans, they will crack down, more and more, on their fellow citizens to plunder the treasury and make sure they get as much as they can. America will withdraw from Iraq, and suddenly the problem will not be a botched invasion (or, actually, a stupid action in the first place) but the opposition to it will be blamed.
In order to facilitate both plunder and blame, the plutocrats may allow the fascist goon squads to take out their frustration on liberals and immigrants and people of color, or they may not be able to stop them, since they’ve created this beast via Limbaugh and Coulter, etc. and the goons cannot get to the rich, but they can get to us.
I still believe there are enough people in govt (lifers, not BushCo) and the military who can stop this, but who knows. It would probably require some nasty business…it’s a morally complicated issue.
It seems that we have a whole cabal of Dr. Strangeloves running this country and their “parental” style, as Lakoff would put it, is more like the guy in Silence of the Lambs who wants to create a new and improved self and if only they could fit half the population in that cellar dugout.
Posted by: fauxreal | Jun 14 2005 1:06 utc | 39
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