Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg of SFGate put together a piece that says it all in a nutshell. As if the final page is turned on this script we are all being forced to live out and we can finally see what was planned.
Let’s begin with a well chosen quote from the best President America ever saw.
...the reason that we went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base in the Gulf region, and I have never heard any of our leaders say that they would commit themselves to the Iraqi people that 10 years from now there will be no military bases of the United States in Iraq.
-- former President Jimmy Carter, Feb. 3, 2006
"One of the reasons we had no exit plan from Iraq is that we didn't intend to leave."
- UC San Diego professor emeritus Chalmers Johnson
The United States maintains has over 700 military across the globe and is spending billions of taxpayers money building huge permanent military bases in Iraq. Soon, a new Iraq oil law, most likely authored by Cheney’s gang would cede control of Iraq's oil to western powers for 30 years.
The fact is, this is why Cheney and his oil company executives will not release their energy commission notes. They were complicit in this plan to invade Iraq, occupy it, and steal its oil.
It’s that simple.
And looky over there is ABC News and all their big staff, and over here is NBC and MSNBC and all their networks and none of these fuckheads could figure it out if a middle aged executive with Google like myself can connect a few dots and read a few articles and figure it out. Or is the problem that I am not dating anyone who is connected to the White House and so I am not afraid to publish my opinions because they won’t let me go see Tony in the Rose Garden.
While we shut bases down in the US, we have almost never shut bases down across the globe. This truly is imperialism, only most Americans don’t see it that way, don’t think of us that way and/or simply do not know any better. Given the choice of spending money over there or hire teachers and repair roads over here, the answer is B. The Republicans know this and are desperately trying to guilt us or smear us into staying over there as long as possible. When you live in an ideological bubble as the Republicans true believers do, you see down the road into the imagined future of the neo-con plan and wish for the outcome to be what you always wished for.
But there will never be democracy in Iraq and who cares if there is? They don’t seem to want it...or rather...they have a much bigger appetite to fight for turf and power than to have democracy. When you live in the neo cob bubble you imagine that we are respected as liberators not despised as occupiers and torturers. But then Bill Maher put it perfectly:
"Every single prediction you {neo-cons} have made has been completely wrong".
Not that you could get one to admit it.
"One invasion and a great deal of political engineering by the Bush administration later, this is exactly what the proposed Iraq oil law would achieve."
- Antonia Juhasz, Oil Change International
So that’s it. It was the plan of the neo-cons to use an Oklahoma City bombing to close down the Bill of Rights and become a military dictatorship. It was the plan of the neo-cons to use Nazi-like fear tactics to scare us into invading a country that we didn’t have to and the press was complicit and lazy and the neo-cons pulled off everything but the end game.
The question is not whether or not we will leave Iraq, but whether the Republican Party will survive once Americans get a shot of the miles and miles of massive military bases we built over in Al Anbar province on their dollar and barely told them about. The argument about more chaos when we leave will eventually disintegrate and Americans will say to themselves that this was not what they planned for, not what they were sold and not what they agreed to. Eventually Americans will see that we can only hold off the ultimate chaotic orgasm of violence in Iraq, we do not have the power to stop it. At the end of the day, it probably would have been better to just tell everyone what the real plan is. It’s so hard and so bloody to read the plan when it is written in the blood of American servicemen and servicewomen. It’s so hard to see the no-con script when it is covered in viscera and rubble and embroidered with lies and deceit and greed.
Yes, the neo-cons are right about one thing: if we leave Iraq it will get worse. And that is their last leg to stand on for staying. The idea of seeding democracy is pretty much kaput. The idea of looking for WMDs was always a lie.
But I hate to say it, eventually, probably withn the next two to three years ( that’s four to six Friedmans)
The general makes it a point to steer away from the political implications of the struggle, but this cannot be done in the wider arena. There are grounds for wondering whether the Republican party will survive this dilemma.
Link here: http://article.nationalreview.com/...
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I don’t think the Dictator can resist the desire of Americans to bring the troops home forever. But there is a school of thought given our track record, with few exceptions, we basically will never close down our military bases in Iraq.