In a fascinating article, Naomi Klein draws out some of the reasons for the invasion. Reasons that are not reported by the mainstream American Press. The article is Baghdad Year Zero.
"..The honey theory of Iraqi reconstruction (that is, if you crack open a country wide enough, disable its laws, then sit back and wait for the flies to come to honey. Haliburton, Bechtel, etc.) stems from the most cherished belief of the war’s ideological architects: that greed is good. Not good just for them and their friends but good for humanity, and certainly good for Iraqis. Greed creates profit, which creates growth, which creates jobs and products and services and everything else anyone could possibly need or want. The role of good government, then, is to create the optimal conditions for corporations to pursue their bottomless greed, so that they in turn can meet the needs of the society..."
"A country of 25 million would not be rebuilt as it was before the war; it would be erased, disappeared. In its place would spring forth a gleaming showroom for laissez-faire economics, a utopia such as the world had never seen. Every policy that liberates multinational corporations to pursue their quest for profit would be put into place: a shrunken state, a flexible workforce, open borders, minimal taxes, no tariffs, no ownership restrictions..."
Klein's article is resplendent with examples of the NeoCon rape of Iraq. It goes far beyond just killing the men, women, and children, who live there. It goes to absolutely destroying their ability to control their own country. It goes to selling off every level of Iraq to the highest bidder. It goes to staking out Iraq and allowing the vultures to pick its meat and bones. Kind of similar to what the US Government did, and are doing, to the Native Americans. (but I digress...)
"The tone of Bremer’s (The US Govenor sent to Iraq immediately after the initial military invasion) tenure was set with his first major act on the job: he fired 500,000 state workers, most of them soldiers, but also doctors, nurses, teachers, publishers, and printers. Next, he flung open the country’s borders to absolutely unrestricted imports: no tariffs, no duties, no inspections, no taxes. Iraq, Bremer declared two weeks after he arrived, was “open for business.”
One month later, Bremer unveiled the centerpiece of his reforms. Before the invasion, Iraq’s non-oil-related economy had been dominated by 200 state-owned companies, which produced everything from cement to paper to washing machines. In June, Bremer flew to an economic summit in Jordan and announced that these firms would be privatized immediately. “Getting inefficient state enterprises into private hands,” he said, “is essential for Iraq’s economic recovery.” It would be the largest state liquidation sale since the collapse of the Soviet Union..."
The false claims of WMD's, 911, Saddam as a meany, these were all used to justify the invasion. As anyone with any brains knows, these were all lies. But here is one more bit of obfuscation, the NeoConservatives claimed they wanted a show piece to demonstrate the ultimate genius of Capitalism. They further stated that they wanted to create a country to show the world just how smart they are and how well extreme Capitalism can work. What Bullshit. This is nothing more than a polite way of saying they wanted to rape Iraq in every way possible.This isn't a 'noble cause', as that demented little tyrant Bush claims, it is a demonstration of brutality in the name of limitless greed and avarice on a collossal scale.
(Thanks Robie for the heads up on Klein's article)
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