The Ugly Truth: Permanent Bases In Iraq Will Provide Security For Oil Co.

[kpete]

What’s really going on in iraq from darh jamail.
permanent bases for the oil industry.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062806A.shtml

An Iraqi Withdrawal From Iraq
By Dahr Jamail
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Wednesday 28 June 2006

One must look behind the media frenzy around the "plan" to get a clearer idea of what is actually occurring in Iraq.

I recently spoke with Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. A foreign policy expert, Juhasz writes, "The corporations, the neoconservatives, and the George W. Bush administration are three interlocking groups with fluid demarcations. Iraq represents several things to these players: oil, wealth, regional power, and global power. Iraq presents them with the first opportunity for a truly imperial invasion as president Bush has repeatedly said, Iraq is only the beginning"

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"Production Sharing Agreements (PSA's) are what the Bush administration and the corporations they serve want," Juhasz told me, "This enables the US oil companies to have control and access to oil that they didn't have access to before the war. And as we all know, that is what this has been about all along."

She added that the permanent military bases in Iraq are to be used for providing security for the oil companies.

When one looks at the tragic situation on the ground in Iraq today, it is and always has been clear that the objective of the US military in Iraq has never had anything to do with providing security to the Iraqi people.

[harlinchi]

1. PSA's: one of the freedoms for which America is hated! n/t

[mike_c]

2. just as they protected the oil ministry while the museum was looted....

That event is a metaphor for the entire operation in Iraq-- it has always been about looting Iraqi resources and the U.S. treasury. Numerous other interests-- neocon theories about militaristic imperialism, Bush's personal antipithy toward Saddam Hussein-- were all subsidiary to the single over-riding motive: greed.

It's also important to understand that "withdrawal plans" usually do little more than change the script. They retain the essential objectives. Ending the high profile military occupation is only a part of what needs to be done to achieve justice for U.S. crimes in Iraq.

[MADem]

4. Oh come now, that was just one fellow with a vase!!!

After all, Rummy told us so, so it must be true!!!!!!

[MADem]

3. Well, hush mah mouth!!!!

Whoever could have anticipated that this is what those bases would be used for over the long haul???

For the irony-impaired, here's the :sarcasm: icon.....