Danse macabre - Column re Iraq from the Jamaica Observer

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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050205T220000-0500_74541_OBS_DANSE_MACABRE.asp

Danse macabre
In Our Time
Wayne Brown
Sunday, February 06, 2005


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It's a truism that imperial wars are fought for loot. The Romans wanted Egyptian grain, the Europeans coveted West Indian sugar, Hitler set out to seize 'living space' to the East for his master race (and Slavic slaves to toil in their service); George Bush and those he represents want control of Middle Eastern oil.

The launching of the US imperial legions into Iraq does however have a strategic dimension. In tandem with the new US bases in Afghanistan and the Caspian, the intention is to starve China of access to the oil it will soon need to match the US industrially and militarily.
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Imperial wars may be launched for loot, but an occupied people can be put to other uses as well, and last Sunday Iraqis were sent by their American ringmasters to jump through the elections hoop. What made that particular circus uncommonly cruel is that, voting for the first time, so many of them clearly believed in what they were doing.

The date, January 30, wasn't arbitrary; the moment it was announced, one knew that Rove and Co were planning a pre-State of the Union Address extravaganza. The ultimate goal was to empower Mr Bush to push through his domestic programme - making permanent his tax cuts for the wealthy, dismantling the last remnants of Roosevelt's humanitarian 'New Deal', specifically Social Security - unburdened by domestic American perception of the albatross that's Iraq.

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more....
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050205T220000-0500_74541_OBS_DANSE_MACABRE.asp

Seems perfectly clear to me.

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[dand]

1. Brilliant!!

I just wish we had a free press in this country. We have to read the true story in the Jamaica Observer , :mad: :puke: