Time To Recognize It For What It Is. Classic Stark Naked Colonialism

[Solomon]

Bordering on genocide in fact. We have run all the decent people out of Iraq. Bombed the hell out of the place. Unleashed a bloody civil war. Dropped tons of depleted uranium. Reducing it to rubble.

Why do people think we are leaving Iraq? This is exactly the situation they planned on. With a civil war, we can let them butcher each other, and we won't get the dreaded genocide tag. It's a time tested tactic if you want to wipe out a whole people. Soon we will choose one of the sides in terms of supplying them with frightful weapons so they can kill each other off. We will demonize the other side.

Meanwhile, while they're killing each other, we'll make sure those oil fields are secure.
And we're not letting anybody win whose gonna fuck with our control of the oil. We ain't leaving those oil fields, so politicians can talk all they want about withdrawal of troops. They will be able
to withdraw some, but not all.

Imperialism, Colonialism, Genocide, ... you name it and we're there. A lot of people are in denial.

[sweetheart]

1. Riddick will save us...

... until underverse come...

[Selatius]

2. Iraq wouldn't exist if it weren't for colonialism

Before the British left Iraq, one of their parting gifts was the drawing up of national boundaries for this region. The borders generally didn't regard ethnic/sectarian realities on the ground. They also imposed the Hashimite Monarchy. Three different groups of people who either had a history of hostility or no history were forced together, along with several smaller groups, in one nation dubbed Iraq. As if to add insult to injury, the area's historic access to open water was almost completely cut out leaving a small port that would become Umm Qasr today. The piece of land that was cut out? Today, we call that piece of land Kuwait. When Kuwait did gain independence from the British in 1961, Iraq tried to claim it, but the British were not happy with that, and they made Iraq recognize it as a separate country, not an extension of Iraq.

[alittlelark]

3. I'm not in denial... I just want to

:puke: :puke: :mad:

[cassiepriam]

4. Bingo, the chaos benefits the oil mafia.

Pretty soon Iraq will be a wasteland.
And BushCo can have all the oil to themselves.

[mom cat]

5. Right on target ... mission accomplished!

:puke:

[indepat]

6. By George, it think you've got it: a rose by any other name is still a rose and if it walks

and quacks like a duck. :applause:

[eridani]

7. The imperial thugs who rule us as well are honest when they talk--

--among themselves.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0221-01.htm

Asked how long U.S. troops might remain in Iraq, Garner replied, "I hope they're there a long time", and then compared U.S. goals in Iraq to U.S. military bases in the Philippines between 1898 and 1992.

"One of the most important things we can do right now is start getting basing rights with (the Iraqi authorities)", he said. "And I think we'll have basing rights in the north and basing rights in the south ... we'd want to keep at least a brigade".

"Look back on the Philippines around the turn of the 20th century: they were a coaling station for the navy, and that allowed us to keep a great presence in the Pacific. That's what Iraq is for the next few decades: our coaling station that gives us great presence in the Middle East", Garner added.

While U.S. Military strategists have hinted for some time that a major goal of war was to establish several bases in Iraq, particularly given the ongoing military withdrawal from Saudi Arabia, Garner is the first to state it so baldly.

http://pilger.carlton.com/print/124759

As for Iraq's alleged "weapons of mass destruction", these were dismissed, in so many words, as a convenient excuse, which it is. "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification," it says, "the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."

http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html

"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show we mean business."

[malaise]

8. Well said

Imperialism, Colonialism, Genocide -that's exactly what's going on.

[NNN0LHI]

9. 400,000 killed in Darfur is genocide just as the 600,000 killed in Iraq is n/t

[Solomon]

10. a little kick for more comments.

[rman]

11. yep, business as usual

[earth mom]

12. Didn't * recently say that he wasn't about to leave the Iraq oil for the Iranians to take over?

Such a lie too when * Sr. says just the other day that it's "silly to say that all they-the * administration-cares about is money". Do they really think we are that stupid? :grr:

[bagrman]

13. If the sectarian violence doesn't get them the DU munitions will. NO

Chance for further healthy habitation of much of Iraq. Many doctors are reporting 2-3 cancers in the same patient, and entire families with cancer, 10 -20 people at a time.

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