No, We're Not Going to Withdraw from Iraq

January 17, 2006:

A couple of days ago, there was still another terrorist incident, the bombing of a small village in Pakistan. According to reports, an aircraft without permission and illegally entered Pakistani air space Friday, showering Damadola village with rockets. The attack, which left at least 18 persons (with the federal Bullshit Factor, that means around fifty actually died) including six children and as many women and some cattle dead, has triggered worldwide protests against the terrorists. The United States, however, was not among them. That’s because the United States, the CIA and its super-corrupt government, were the bomb throwers. So what else is new . . . ?

Supposedly (with this administration, there’s always an excuse, something hackneyed beyond all rational credibility, isn’t there?), we were trying to kill Al Qa’ida second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri. Of course, and as is also usual with the Bush Leaguers, “intelligence” was conveniently faulty, and Al Zawahiri wasn’t in the village. Once more, the innocents killed were “collateral damage.” Just tough shit. If we’re after a “terrorist,” or anything else "in the interest of the United States," what’s a couple dozen kids and a dinky-ass little village or two? Reminds anybody of the village in Vietnam that had to be obliterated in order to save it? No, I don't suppose. Everybody who listens to the media knows there are no parallels between this war and Vietnam.

Pakistan has described the United States' bombardment last week of a tribal area in the country as an attack on its sovereignty. Damned narrow-minded of them, and our pundits like FoxNews’ Bill O’Reilly are telling them so in no uncertain terms. The United States government has already refused to apologize. This president is never in the wrong, of course, whether it's violation of the rights of U.S. citizens or those of other countries. It just happens that this latest of atrocities by the United States took place a short time (January 9, as I recall) after Harry Belafonte was excoriated in the U.S. media and press for calling our president “the greatest terrorist in the world.” Harry, says, Bill O’Reilly, is a traitor.

As for me, hell, I don’t know what to say, anymore. You do have to wonder – as I imagine nearly everybody else in the world is wondering – what in hell will this megalomaniacal SOB do next? And what the hell does it take to get him impeached? The man is now guilty – and there is utterly no doubt about it - of war crimes. That’s in front of the entire planet. And I remind you that declaring "war on terror" does not in any legal - or, for that matter, moral - way justify bombing any country we happen to choose.

So where in the hell are we? What’s next? Well, obviously, the world hates our guts, and just as obviously with good reason. That means that every little country we might invade next – meaning anyone who has anything we want, meaning damned near everything we need and everybody we hate – wants to get a nuke. Otherwise, they’re going the way of Nicaragua, Chile, Panama, Grenada, Iraq, and fifty more. Face it, the U.S. invaded Iraq because of its oil resources, mostly untapped, and the fact that Iraq is right at the heart of the world's energy supply. That, in turn, means control of Iraq extends U.S. strategic power, over all of Europe and Asia. That means little countries like Iran, North Korea, and the like need a nuclear threat.

Are you wondering about Cuba, too? Once, we were willing to go to war with the Soviet Union over medium range missiles there.

But the U.S. government knows it stays in power as long as the decadent, gluttonous, and overweight U.S. public has gas for the SUVs that are as overweight and gluttonous as their owners. But even if we were living on renewable energy, we need a whole lot more than just those SUVs to maintain the “American Lifestyle.” That means all the world’s minerals, metals, soil, food, water – everything. And that's another major reason for controlling the oil resources - strategic power. And strategic power leverage is the reason for insisting that no one else get a nuclear weapon.

Oil was the reason for invading Iraq, the fundamental reason. That’s the reason we'll be there indefinitely. Just like we planned in the first place. Nobody in his right mind and with even a cursory knowledge of history would believe we really intended to make a republic of Iraq. That’s ridiculous. Let's consider that "withdrawal" we're so anxious to make. Any day's newspaper or TV broadcast starts by saying the United States intends to bring about a democratic, sovereign, and independent Iraq. Anybody who knows Islam, the Arab temperament and character knows that isn’t even a remote possibility. For one thing - in the Arab world, the ONLY thing - it would repudiate whole tracts of the Koran and Islam. Even if Iraq were more or less democratic – an Islamic democracy (how nuts can you get?), in other words, it'll have a Shiite majority.

The Shiite Iraq will immediately seek ties with Iran – that’s Shiite Iran. Most of the Shiite clerics come from Iran, you know. So you get an Iraqi-Iran alliance. On top of that, there's a Shiite population which has been bitterly oppressed by the U.S.-backed fundamentalist tyranny, and it’s right across the border in Saudi Arabia. That just happens to be where most of the Mid-East's oil is. Can you imagine the nightmare in Washington, were a Shiite alliance to control most of the world's oil? They’d soon be totally independent of Washington. More, they’d go to China and the East, people who’d be tickled as hell to go to bed with them. You think the Military Industrial Complex and corporations who own us didn’t think of that? If you do, you can start eating hay when the inevitable big economic crunch comes - you're a jackass.

The fact is that the U.S. would go to nuclear war before letting Shiite Islam control the world's oil, and the “American” people would clamor for war just as soon as the gas pumps started going dry. Power corrupts not only “leaders,” you know. Bush and his owners will keep bombing villages, and killing the innocent, and the public will let it happen, so long as it keeps gas in those SUVs. For the same reason, we’ll go on tolerating loss of our freedoms to an increasingly totalitarian president and presidency. The fat people – that’s the majority that really counts in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, you know – will happily vote us all right into virtual prison, just so long as their creature comforts and decadent lifestyle are protected there. They'll also cluck and wag their heads at each new atrocity, domestic or otherwise, by their government, just so long as it's not they who are the victims. "Collateral damage" is a very comforting euphemism, just like "abortion" is. Like I said, power doesn't corrupt only "leaders."

That’s always been inevitable, the natural evolution of democracy, and the reason Second President John Adams observed, “Democracy never lasts long, it soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.” Like a kind of sociological second law of thermodynamics, human beings and their societies inexorably grow more decadent and corrupt, not more virtuous and moral.

There isn’t going to be any withdrawal from Iraq. The situation there is perfect for justifying our continued occupation, and it’s just what the White House and our slavering for corruption congress planned. We’ll keep it that way. Not for nothing are we having so hard a time finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, just like we can’t find Osama bin Laden.

So there you have it. The truth you supposedly love so much. Enjoy!