Doing the 'crazy American' thing, as first marketed by Ronald Reagan. The Achilles heel of the Bush2 government is that they are too honest, too 'out there'. administration is that it is obvious what is going on. The empire of pimps.īut the big problem for this U.S. Just have a look at Afghanistan, or for that matter Haiti, the Philippines, Indonesia or Colombia. We shall see the religious right rise and we shall see secularism, tolerance and compassion go out of the window. societies, appointing the right people involved in the drug trade to power. The majority of whom have oil to find and heroin to sell. We shall see the country propped up by crime warlords, drugs and embezzlers like the other U.S. So we are going to see a country called Iraq, returned to the sand from which it was built. And 1% is what they call a conservative estimate. If even 1% of the population would either actively participate in armed violence or be accessories to it that is 280,000 people the U.S. Nationalists, ethnic separatists, communists, religious fundamentalists, the Kurds and more. But there are many many people who regard the U.S. From all the reports coming out of Iraq those who thought Saddam would return to power are few, those who would fight to see him re-instated are even fewer. So, then what? Will the attacks stop? It is doubtful. But as GW Bush said last week "oh, international law, well, let me call my lawyer." He then laughed. Their tribunals have no basis under any previous or current system. US appointed Iraqis, like the embezzler Chalabi still wanted for extradition to Jordan, will kill Saddam. These tribunals have the power of the death penalty although they have no basis in legality. So, Saddam ("he was beaten by his father teaching him the power of violence," BBC News 24) will eventually be killed, by tribunals set up last week. Certainly they will never be able to create societies that can then create governmental systems that can act on their own. In doing this the population will never be able to act in any way that is independent of U.S. Iraq, like the Soviet Union, has to be returned to its rightful place, the third world. To allow Iraq to regain any of its former wealth, to allow its population to organise, to allow any freedoms beyond the great monetarist freedom "the freedom to starve" (Alfred Sherman) will never happen. Social decay, crime and hopelessness are markers by which U.S. Surely this has to have been a long term aim of the U.S. administration have created a monster of their own.īecause what happens now? What happens if Iraq continues along the way it is now? Because surely it must. By making out that they were involved in a proper war with real hardened enemies the U.S. companies and the privatisation (or looting, whichever you prefer) of state oil assets and supply chains. Not the invasion of a resource rich country for the "capitalist dream" (The Economist), which was the forced handover of state industries to U.S. Of course it did not as we have said, but the PR game was to make it seem like the USA was involved in a proper war. Whilst the death of each soldier was recorded it made it seem like it mattered. It's been a doddle, a cakewalk, just as they said it would be.īut now they have become trapped by their own game. Suicide, car accidents, food poisoning, falling from buildings. The invasion of a country of 28m people has cost less than 700 troops, in total, from every country, with every cause of death. Whilst the hysterical, headline seeking mass media, trumpeted the deaths of US soldiers one by one they consummately fail to add them up. administration's long game, the securitisation of world energy resources for the benefit of the USA. armed forces were always just a minor irritation to this U.S. Least of all the men who sent them there. No one, and we mean no one, cares about dead U.S. military were in any way worrying to the Pentagon is also a ludicrous claim.
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Also the idea that the operations and attacks against the U.S.
But then anyone on the ground could have told you that. Hussein, for a start, was not 'directing operations' covered in shit in a tiny cellar with hardly any clothes and a wonky beard. Another moment that does not really matter. administration worked the PR machine when the war 'officially ended' now the capture of Hussein will also prove to be just another plastic Turkey moment. The capture of Saddam Hussein, like so much surrounding this fantasy war, will produce more questions than it answers.