April 24, 2006
Why the Busheviks May Believe They are Winning the Iraq War
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Maureen Farrell returns to BuzzFlash today to explore a vitally significant issue that only periodically emerges in the mainstream press: the building of permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
As one BuzzFlash reader wrote recently to us, we might have it all wrong in asserting, like most Americans now do, that Bush is losing the war in Iraq (not to mention that it was unnecessary from the get-go). From the perspective of the Busheviks, they are winning the war, our reader asserts.
Why?
Because their real goals in Iraq are quite different from their publicly stated arguments. Their real goals are controlling Middle-Eastern oil and building enormous permanent military bases in Iraq. That may also explain the billion-dollar-plus Saddam palace style U.S. Embassy the Bush Administration is constructing in Baghdad.
When you look at it from the Neo-Con perspective (and not the false propaganda reasons Bush has given for the war), the American and Iraqi deaths are just so much cannon fodder in the cause of making Iraq a virtual American protectorate.
The Busheviks may very well be keeping their eye on the prize: oil and gargantuan military bases that are built in non-urban areas difficult to attack. In short, the White House may not care about the Iraqi civil war (except so far as it affects domestic politics). In fact, an Iraq split up into three sectors might benefit the Bushevik goals of oil control and a long-term military presence.
The reader who proposed these ideas believes that the Busheviks might simply let the mayhem continue around secured oil fields and U.S. military bases, as long as the death and injury are kept out of the U.S. "footprints on Iraqi soil."
So, that may explain why we believe the Iraq War is a devastating loss, and the Busheviks -- with the Rumsfeld braggadocio -- believe that they are winning it by achieving their real goals.
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS