Why are Wolfowitz and the Pentagon in Charge of Iraq Rebuilding?
by Stan Moore
(Sunday 14 December 2003)
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who do not know first hand the risks and impacts of war are leading
our nation into wars and planned subjugation of a whole list of
foreign nations."
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It is clear that the neo-conservative approach to dominating the world
by U.S. military supremacy is the driving force in foreign policy of
the U.S. government. The military, the Pentagon, is issuing orders to
determine which corporations of which nations of the world will be
allowed to participate in rebuilding Iraq. Not the State Department,
which normally would have handled such foreign affairs. This is
nothing short of amazing, especially in view of the fact that the U.S.
State Department is headed by a former U.S. General, Colin Powell, who
was formerly military head of the entire defense establishment. But
now, the Pentagon, under non-military civilian leadership of war-hawks
like Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and consulting with chicken hawk
***** Cheney are in charge of the militarization of foreign policy.
Men who do not know first hand the risks and impacts of war are
leading our nation into wars and planned subjugation of a whole list
of foreign nations. And then their ideology, based on U.S. supremacy,
controls who rebuilds the damage caused by their own militaristic
foreign policy! Not only is this philosophically driven, but huge
amounts of money are involved.
Intertwined completely within the process are the wish lists and the
whims of American corporations, whose interests are REALLY the driving
force behind all these wars and these policies. The "elite"
governmental officials in the Pentagon are able to transfer their
careers seamlessly between corporate America and the American
government. One year Cheney is in charge of Halliburton, and another
year he is Vice-President, handing out lucrative no-bid contracts to
his former employer while still drawing huge paychecks in delayed
compensation. Not only does the "buck stop here", but it never stops
coming here! The payroll is an endless loop between the revolving
career doors of militaristic, corporate dominated America.
Crisis and Warfare are the keynotes now to lucrative careers. Public
fear is an integral part of creating government policies, for without
fear and without crisis and without war, the contracts become
minimized. The era of benevolent American government is over. American
citizens who are left out of the loop might was well live in Uganda.
The money cycle is now built on world economic resources and the
competition/warfare/subjugation loop that also includes high
technology and careerism in the dominance of the world by America.
And do not forget the Israel connection. Although Israel has no
economic benefit to offer America as a nation, the Israeli situation
is a huge benefit to corporate warmongers within the Zionist/Amerikan
military money machine. Israel is one never ending source of crisis.
Israel is a crisis machine, based on perpetual injustice and security
concerns. After all, if you subjugate a people endlessly, fermenting
hatred and reprisals, you have to defend yourself from your own
victims! The Israelis have become the world's greatest proponents of
turning past victimhood into excuse to create and maintain your own
victims and then turning your own victims into your own enemies so as
to create a never-ending cash flow from your benefactor across the
Atlantic. "Cash for Crisis" is the Israeli model that is now being
used by the U.S. elite to line their own pocketbooks at the expense of
the U.S. economy and the well-being of the U.S. public at large.
It requires a lot of lying, a lot of deceit, a lot of media
manipulation to make all this work. If "Democracy Now" were a Network
television series with viewership equal to that of Fox Television, the
lies would not work. If Pacifica Radio were as big as Clear Channel,
the lies would not deceive the American people as well as they do. But
the dominant corporate culture suppresses truth and effective, honest
communication by never ending redundancy of lies and propaganda. Lies
and more lies have created an American public acceptance of what
should be intolerable.
So, we see Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld in charge and on the boob tube. We
see George W. Bush defining "civilization" to the American people and
the world.
And we cringe and wonder if it can possibly get any worse.
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/2975/
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