[Peace-discuss] The USG, Iraq and oil

[C. G. Estabrook]

"Iraq contains perhaps the second largest oil reserves in the world, which are, 
furthermore, very cheap to extract ... For US planners, it is imperative that 
Iraq remain under U.S. control ... as an obedient client state that will also 
house major U.S. military bases, right at the heart of the world's major energy 
reserves.  That these were the primary goals of the invasion was always clear 
enough through the haze of successive pretexts...

"... the huge air bases now being built around the country, and the 'embassy' in 
Baghdad, a city within a city, unlike any embassy in the world ... are not being 
constructed to be abandoned ... 'we invaded you so that we can control your 
country and have privileged access to your resources'...

"The Bush administration's 'regime change' policy toward Iran comes with ominous 
threats of force (there Bush is joined by both US presidential candidates)...

"In fact, the whole invasion is a war crime — indeed the supreme international 
crime, differing from other war crimes in that it encompasses all the evil that 
follows, in the terms of the Nuremberg judgment. This is among the topics that 
can't be discussed, in the presidential campaign or elsewhere. Why are we in 
Iraq? What do we owe Iraqis for destroying their country? The majority of the 
American people favor US withdrawal from Iraq. Do their voices matter?"

Uh, yeah.  Really.  --CGE


rlangenh at uiuc.edu wrote:
> Really?