-Caveat Lector- Bush's real reasons for war on Iraq http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Binion091902/binion091902.html By Carla Binion Online Journal Contributing Editor
September 19, 2002—A recent Boston Globe article says the Bush war hawks want to attack Iraq in order to "reshape" the Middle East, primarily for oil and domination of the Gulf region, and not because of any actual threat from Saddam Hussein. The Globe says certain Washington think tanks and hawkish hard-liners have wanted to reshape the Mideast for years. Now that some of those hawks hold key positions in the Bush administration—Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith in the Pentagon, John Hannah and Lewis Libby on the vice president's staff and John Bolton in the State Department—analysts say the restructuring might happen. According to the Globe, Raad Alkadiri, an Iraq analyst with PFC, a Washington-based energy consulting organization, said: "The goal is not just a new regime in Iraq. The goal is a new Middle East. The goal has been and remains one of the main driving factors of preemptive action against Iraq.'' Iraq is home to the world's second-largest oil reserves. Installing a U.S.-friendly regime would make Saudi Arabia's oil less important when it comes to setting oil prices. According to the Globe, a new U.S.-allied regime would "diminish the influence of OPEC, long dominated by Saudi Arabia, over oil supplies and prices." A senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Globe, ''There are people invested in this philosophy [reshaping the Mideast] all throughout the administration. Some of the strongest voices are in State." Some of the hawks claim they want to create "democracy" in the region. However, according to the Globe article: "Jessica T. Mathews, president of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington policy group, said that installing a democracy in Iraq, much less the rest of the Middle East, would be extraordinarily difficult, if not out of the question. She contended that change in Iraq is more akin to building a wall brick by brick and will require the support of allies." Matthews said, ''The argument we would be starting a democratic wave in Iraq is pure blowing smoke . . . You have 22 Arab governments and not one has made any progress toward democracy, not one." "After an ouster of Hussein," the article says, "the United States will have more leverage to act against Syria and Iran." Let's take a look at what this news report means: The Bush administration is lying to the American people, to Congress, to the UN and to the rest of the world about its motives for attacking Iraq. The real intention of the Bush administration hawks is to keep this country at war for many years, attacking first Iraq and then possibly other nations, including Syria and Iran—primarily to reshape and dominate the region and control the region's oil. The Bush war hawks have no concern for the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of human lives these wars will cost. They don't care that many American soldiers will die for oil or world domination, and they don't mind lying to those soldiers in order to recruit them. The Bush administration will squander billions of dollars on their misbegotten wars—money that could instead be spent on a national health care system or other human needs. Because this will be a war of aggression, and not a just war by any definition, the war hawks' plans amount to premeditated, cold-blooded murder of many thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians and American soldiers, and possibly the eventual murder of innocent Syrians, Iranians and others. This nation has never before launched a preemptive attack on another country. The Bush hawks' plans will likely cause large numbers of terrorists to retaliate and possibly harm innocent Americans. The administration's plans to keep this country at war for years, which will drain our national treasury, murder Iraqi and other civilians, risk setting off a powder keg of Middle East resentment against this nation, and send American soldiers into harm's way, all for oil and world domination, should be denounced loudly and clearly throughout the world. The world should realize this: If the Bush war hawks go ahead with their plans to attack Iraq and other nations without just cause, the Bush administration itself will be committing acts of terrorism against those nations. Contact members of Congress. Protest. Stand up and oppose these acts. Download a printable version. For a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here. The views expressed herein are the writers' own and do not necessarily reflect those of Online Journal. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright © 1998-2002 Online Journal™. All rights reserved. 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