From the start it was apparent that true liberation of Iraq was not the reason for invasion. The big oil lobby and the big “reconstruction” lobby make money only if Iraq changes hands into a puppet government beholding to big business and corruption. We’re not idiots here, come on… where did you guys dig up Chalabi?? What a joke.
What do you expect though? Act like a banana republic, get treated like a banana republic. How did such a great nation come to so much international scorn?? Can’t kill scorn with guns, it just grows…
There have been more flagrant violations of treaty, protocol, and international law on the part of the current American administration, and more blatant attempt at revisionism and outright disinformation on a highly treasonous level throughout this invasion that millions of your own citizens have protested strongly against the government, and calls for impeachment and trial for war crimes come from WITHIN the U.S. daily. There is a direct correlation between the level of education and the level of disgust with the administration. It’s obvious even when one scratches the surface of information coming from the higher levels of academia.
When we factor in the “bombing back to the Stone Age” part that we’ve come to call “collateral damage”, and the fact that the previous war and ensuing decade of sanctions were clearly engineered to destroy iraqi health and civic infrastucture, we plainly see a picture of a largely defenceless nation being crushed militarily for corporate interests, which is made all the more criminal when we realize that the corporation is inextricably linked to the Commander in Chief.
The vague promises of reconstruction have so far not included ANY of the mandated infrastructure repairs as listed in the Geneva convention, and predicatably have been revealed to be primitve lies, the xenophobic and highly paranoid consensus for war in the first place has been indelibly shown to be a fraud, and once again the players who will make billions of unaccountable dollars are the ones that lied to make the case for war in the first place…
I really feel that the only way for America to gain any sort of credibility when it comes to righeousness or democracy is to undergo a major coup of some kind. Two hundred years go they would have hung the damn president for this sort of thing. The American ideal of vigilance towards government is clearly a thing of the past. Moreover, there’s been an unprecedented string of executive changes, most of them illegal in their own right, to reduce disclosure, accountability, taxation, and limitations on governmental powers.
It’s over, you let it happen, and the laws are being changed so that it will be easier next time to engage in illegal military oppression with or without the approval of the American citizenry.
The US economy is now in roughly the same state as Enron was a year ago. Nobody believes the fiscal forecasts anymore, and the dollar has nowhere to go but down, ESPECIALLY if you engage in an endless military campaign halfway around the world. You can’t pay for it and the world knows it. Granted, you may pursue the litigious path of “reclaiming war expense”, but once again, who invest in a company that has to sue constantly to even break even? The amount of people who are stupid enough to buy American dollars now are getting fewer, now that some of the world realizes that the national economy is largely based on misleading and fraudulent accounting practices, much like Wall Street has been shown to be.
Once again, the power of the military will be eclipsed by the power of people’s pocketbooks. Not very good timing, simulatneously pushing for a global economic “partenership” whilst engaging in the very behaviour that alienates investors. If the US can’t keep their promises, and if they continue to break treaties by the dozen, who exactly will trust them?
If you feel any safer, properous, or protected by your governments actions of the past two years I feel nothing but pity for you. Well no, throw in a lot of contempt for the drone-like hyperpatriotic drivel emanating from the American media, and you’re getting warm.
