Greg Palast: Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=483&row=0

Right?

What better way to increase the value of the oil held by Bush and his US and Saudi oily cronies?

In a Satanic kind of way

our appetite?

on the PR and casualty front, but the most important point of all:

No one has stopped them at all in their major objectives. Most of the cheat voting machines are in and only slowly pried loose in states they don't need. No defections in the GOP, no rivals, no effective criticism and barely a credible whimper on the scandals and failures. No credible leading opposition party. No effective direction for the mass of angered Americans to do anything. All the money flowing from all directions into the Bush cabal's private coffers. All the law tending toward protecting them as most of the journalistic media do already.

Frighteningly I always believed it was a matter of degree. One plane strike away from truly absolute power if 93 had hit Congress, one botched anthrax herring and one naysayer or two(Plame) and Iraq was justified.

And what did they always want in Iraq anyway? Perfect democracy? Hardly. They always wanted a degree of crippling strife between factions, hopefully spreading out to the region to create more opportunities in Iran and Syria(a true sop to the weak partner Israel) and play the cartel eventually like divided chumps.

So it has all been too much. The REASON for the failure is that they wanted the very things that have blown up out of control. The intentions not only were impure, Palast notes, the very violence and undemocratic competition going on, the greed and exploitation were all things very much intended and now out of control.

What they would have preferred though, with all deference to Palast, is even more obsequious bowing to their plans, neater and more invisible successes, a firmer control than they currently have over the oil. So they must continuously, in your ineffective face, keep overreaching.

Overreaching however, is only in degree. The Iran action they seem very smug and pleased with themselves about in advance is part of the standard agenda. And worse things all on schedule until they are stopped. Some Dems are tired of simply waving them(Bushco) on thinking they(Bushco) are getting into trouble more than they(Bushco) are getting what they(Bushco) want. That most dangerous bet has slain tens of thousands and endangered the world itself.

end in our lifetime -- these guys are thinking long term. 30 -40 years out. And don't think for a second that they are going to allow the election of anyone who is part of the program. We are dealing with Nazis!

listened to Bush's speech on Iraq in March, 2003 you heard him tell the Iraqis not to blow up the oil wells. I thought at the time that it was pretty telling that his first warning to the Iraqis was about the oil wells.

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 17, 2003

Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation
The Cross Hall

<snip>

"And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people. Do not obey any command to use weapons of mass destruction against anyone, including the Iraqi people. War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, "I was just following orders." "

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html

The museums?

Nope.

The Oil Ministry.

is so thorough and widespread that it couldn't have happened by chance. It's all part of the neo-con's delusions of 'creative destruction' If we had really wanted a stable and orderly society in Iraq, we would have made sure that the reconstruction of Iraq actually took place. But if it had we wouldn't have any reason to stay there, now would we?? As long as there is chaos, we can't leave. A catch-22.

I've been arguing this for some time now. Follow the dollar. Chaos = profit for Bushco. More chaos = more profit.

The same is true of New Orleans. The blueprint is this: allow chaos to follow disasters manmade and natural. Foster more chaos through inaction and "incompetence." Sell off contracts for reconstruction and repair and renewal.

It's foolproof.

Causes some demand destruction which will soften peak oil.

You put up a link, but the site only says the same as you, offering NO real proof.

Heresay is no dice in the real world.

There is nothing odd about it.

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"Mr. Jefferson?" Welcome.

on January 21, 2001 was:

Oil - $27.69/bbl

here is a current chart:

You're joking, right? You can get American public to support invasion of another country based on hearsay! IT'S the basis of the Bush Doctrine!!

Where is that in the rules?

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rules. Guilty as charged.
Thanks

but the mods do delete those when they see em

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the top players.

In the past on this oil story, he got Jay Garner, our first colonial governor of Iraq on camera talking about the privatization and seizure of Iraq's oil and Grover Norquist talking about writing the plan, which Palast had already got his hands on and published portions of.

In this case, he got another state department doc, and will probably post the relevant portion in the future.

That's a substantially better track record that the right wing press.

provides a direct quote from that source. How is that hearsay?

This should be sent to Oberman.

Jackpot!

Every time they mention terrorism, WMD, and spreading democracy in the Middle East, that is essentially the same as saying they agree with the oil hegemony agenda because they are lying to cover it up.