Why Bush won't leave Iraq

[undergroundpanther]

Excerpt: "As Josh Mitteldorf of the University of Arizona recently put it, "There are a lot of contractors making a fortune and we don't want that money tap turned off, even though it is borrowed money, which our children and grandchildren will have to repay."<13>

As Shalmali Guttal, a Bangalore-based researcher put it, "We used to have vulgar colonialism. Now we have sophisticated colonialism, and they call it 'reconstruction.'<12> Classical colonial or imperial powers roamed on the periphery of the capitalist center, "discovered" new territories , and drained them off of their riches and resources. Today there are no new places in our planet to be "discovered." But there are many vulnerable sovereign countries whose governments can be overthrown, their infrastructures smashed to the ground, and fortunes made as a result (of both destruction and "reconstruction). And herein lies the genius of a parasitically efficient market mechanism, as well as a major driving force behind the Bush administration's unprovoked unilateral wars of choice.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_prof__is_070120_must_read_3a_why_isn_t.htm

[Lilith Velkor]

1. A lot of Americans seem to think we own the place because we broke it

Nevermind what the Iraqis think. That's some vulgar colonialism for ya right there.

[Dhalgren]

2. This is the real war. Those who think along the lines of the tired

Republicon rubric of "We broke it, so we own it" bullshit have got to understand that we "broke" it on PURPOSE. "Breaking" Iraq is what the real war was for in the first place. Mission accomplished...

[dogday]

3. Take a look at the US embassy and tell me if you

think we are ever leaving... We are in perfect position, militarily, to attack just about anyone in the middle east..