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I don't know what Rumsfeld's operational role may be, but it is no coincidence that he penned this disinformation piece about Chavez and Venezuela, with its veiled threats of "swift" U.S. military intervention in support of "friends and allies" in South America, just preceded by Exxon Mobile's first move against Venezuela (walking out of talks and going the the World Bank's ISCID), and followed by Exxon Mobile hostile court action, trying to freeze Venezuela's assets. This is a classic U.S. fascist/corporate strategy in Latin America--economic destabilization aimed at civil unrest and disorder, close alliance with fascist elements in the country (big funding of them, in fact, through USAID-NED and other budgets), and, in the case of Venezuela, multiple attempts at toppling the elected government. Venezuela, the majority of its people, and the Chavez government are fairly sturdy entities--as the many attempts of the Bush Junta to destabilize and topple the elected government have proven, but this is the most concerted effort I've seen yet, starting with a year or more of intense anti-Chavez propaganda in the global corporate predator press, and then Exxon Mobile's moves and Rumsfeld's threats issued in the Washington Post.
Rumsfeld is very closely connected to Dick Cheney, who is an operative of the U.S./Saudi oil industry. Rumsfeld is also a servant of the war profiteers. He may be out office but he is not out of the picture, by any means. He and Cheney must be very frustrated war criminals, at this point--having been denied their heart's desire--mass death of Iranians and takeover of the Iranian oil fields. They were going to use nukes to do it. But, a) the U.S. military balked at that, and b) ultimately I think it was China and Russia that stopped it.
So, where do they turn their attention to next, in their lust for oil and death? South America! What I suspect is that they must regain some fascist/corporate ground in South American oil fields, possibly as their payment for continued protection against prosecution for war crimes, grand theft and treason. Their list of heinous crimes is miles long. They should long ago have been prosecuted, but it's dead in the water. And why do you think that is? It's because their global corporate predator pals are protecting them. And, when you look at the global picture, you see chaos in Iraq and full oil production in stable circumstances a long way off, if ever, and a hostile world--created mostly by Bush Junta crimes and lawlessness, but also by NAFTA, "free trade," the WTO, U.S./Bush hostility and callousness on Kyoto and other efforts to stop global warming, their hostility to the United Nations, their hostility toward and provocation of Russia, and other policies --a world in which oil for U.S. global predation is becoming harder and harder to find. And this nest of rebellion in our own hemisphere--in the Andes democracies--must drive these predators nuts. They ran over us pretty easily. Not so the South Americans. They are fighting back.
I had thought they would first try to topple Evo Morales' government in Bolivia, and try to draw Chavez into the fray. Morales is a close ally of Chavez, and Bolivia is more vulnerable in many ways than Venezuela. But they could be trying to weaken Venezuela, and make it less able to come to Bolivia's aid, strike in Bolivia first--with the rightwing plan to split the country in two--get a precedent there of U.S. military boots on the ground--giving them second launching pad against the Andes democracies (in addition to Colombia)--and then move on more difficult targets like Venezuela, Ecuador and Argentina. They really hate Chavez for his role in uniting these countries on goals of regional cooperation and South American independence. He is their main target, and Venezuela has the most oil--which is being wasted, from their point of view, on bootstrapping the poor with education, medical care and many other social justice measures.
It was difficult to make sense of Bush Junta strategy in South America, until Rumsfeld came along and published his op-ed in the Washington Post. That crystallized many things for me. Rumsfeld is not a "think tank" intellectual He is a fascist and warmongering activist . His Office of Special Plans was THE hotbed of the NeoCons--and was basically at war with the CIA, which opposed the Iraq War. Don't for a minute believe that they have been de-mobilized, just because Rumsfeld is not heading the Pentagon any more. I'm not entirely sure how or why he resigned, or was ousted. I suspect it had to do with Iran. It could also have gotten rather hot for him, on some potential criminal/treason matters (such as 9/11). But he is one of the darkest of the visible dark lords who are destroying our country, our democracy and the planet. And he has not retired from evil-doing. He has his sights set on the Andes oil fields.
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