Why all the surprise that Bush plans to hand his war off to the next president, and that we plan on a longterm presence in Iraq?  The media seemed surprised that Mr. Greenspan said the war in Iraq was all about oil. He asked the White House what America would think of a war fought for oil?  Their response…Sh!  The public was told we could use Iraqi oil to finance the war.  Of course this never happened, because we’ve never been able to maintain security in the oil fields.  Insurgents keep blowing up the pipelines.  What else could it have been about!  We never found any WMD, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and there weren’t any al-Qaeda in Iraq before we arrived there.

The Draper biography, ’Dead Certain’, was written well before Bush’s post-Petraeus speech to the nation.  In it we are told Bush plans for the next president, hopefully a republican, to continue the war.  Bush spoke in his speech about a longterm presence in Iraq.  This is no surprise!  Since the beginning of the Afghan war we have been making agreements to upgrade military bases in former Soviet block countries of central Asia; in return we are allowed to use these upgraded bases.  Currently and for the forseeable future, we have military basing in Qatar.  Why would we build a $600 million dollar embassy in Iraq, if we weren’t planning on staying?  The Baghdad embassy is by far our largest in the world.

Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world.  The Iraq war and the forward military basing we have negotiated, is a strategic move to protect and then annex Iraqi oil for ourselves.  Oil will be at the root of the next world war.  The slide down the peak-oil curve is about to begin.  I believe this is why the Bush administration has kept the minutes of Cheney’s energy plan secret.  The truth would belie the whopper Bush told the world.  None of this is a surprise if you were paying attention!

J.R. Lutticken

As we approach the Sept. 15th deadline for the report on Iraq, it is appearent there will be nothing but obfuscation.  Prime minister Al-Maliki says America doesn’t pay homage to the accomplishments of the Iraqi’s, like ending the sectarian violence!  Dubya, on the other hand, thinks things are getting better; while the GAO says Iraq may not have enough electricity until 2015.  Don’t you think these guys should qiut drinking the magic koolaid?

The only viable solution is for Iraq to be partitioned into three semi-autonomous sections, as proposed by senator Biden.  Because of the way Iraq was cobbled together as a country, they lack a strong national cohesiveness.  The U.N. should be the primary force behind the partitioning and peacekeeping duties.  Oops!  I’m sorry, I forgot this is Dubya’s war and he pissed off the U.N. early on.

J.R. Lutticken