Victory!
Chris Floyd:
"The reason that George W. Bush insists that "victory" is achievable in Iraq is not that he is deluded or isolated or ignorant or detached from reality or ill-advised. No, it's that his definition of "victory" is different from those bruited about in his own rhetoric and in the ever-earnest disquisitions of the chattering classes in print and online. For Bush, victory is indeed at hand. It could come at any moment now, could already have been achieved by the time you read this. And the driving force behind his planned "surge" of American troops is the need to preserve those fruits of victory that are now ripening in his hand.
At any time within the next few days, the Iraqi Council of Ministers is expected to approve a new "hydrocarbon law" essentially drawn up by the Bush administration and its UK lackey, the Independent on Sunday reported. The new bill will "radically redraw the Iraqi oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest oil reserves in the world," says the paper, whose reporters have seen a draft of the new law."
So here we have it, the ultimate truth of why Iraq was targetted for 'special treatment' since at least the mid nineties and probably back before Poppy suckered Saddam into Gulf Slaughter 1.Weapons of Mass Destruction Freedom for Iraqis 9/11 Toppling Saddam De - nationalizing the country's oil fields was the primary driving force for the death and destruction brought to Iraq.
"From those earliest days until now, throughout all the twists and turns, the blood and chaos of the occupation, the Bush administration has kept its eye on this prize. The new law offers the barrelling buccaneers of the West a juicy set of production-sharing agreements (PSAs) that will maintain a fig leaf of Iraqi ownership of the nation's oil industry - while letting Bush's Big Oil buddies rake off up to 75 percent of all oil profits for an indefinite period up front, until they decide that their "infrastructure investments" have been repaid. Even then, the agreements will give the Western oil majors an unheard-of 20 percent of Iraq's oil profits - more than twice the average of standard PSAs, the Independent notes."
I wonder if Joe and Jane Sixpack will ever even realize the significance of this revelation, or if MSM will even make mention of this sweetheart deal the fascists have cooked up with their lapdog satrapy. In a sense, victory was assured as soon as Codpiece pumped his fist in the air and exclaimed 'feels good' when the US began the invasion back in 2003. They knew that getting into Iraq to start their appropriation of the oil fields was the hard part - when that was accomplished they could work up any number of excuses to stay there.
"So Bush's confident strut, his incessant upbeat pronouncements about the war, his complacent smirks, his callous indifference to the unspeakable horror he has unleashed in Iraq - these are not the hallmarks of self-delusion, or willful ignorance, or a disassociation from reality. He and his accomplices know full well what the reality is - and they like it."
"The reason that George W. Bush insists that "victory" is achievable in Iraq is not that he is deluded or isolated or ignorant or detached from reality or ill-advised. No, it's that his definition of "victory" is different from those bruited about in his own rhetoric and in the ever-earnest disquisitions of the chattering classes in print and online. For Bush, victory is indeed at hand. It could come at any moment now, could already have been achieved by the time you read this. And the driving force behind his planned "surge" of American troops is the need to preserve those fruits of victory that are now ripening in his hand.
At any time within the next few days, the Iraqi Council of Ministers is expected to approve a new "hydrocarbon law" essentially drawn up by the Bush administration and its UK lackey, the Independent on Sunday reported. The new bill will "radically redraw the Iraqi oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest oil reserves in the world," says the paper, whose reporters have seen a draft of the new law."
So here we have it, the ultimate truth of why Iraq was targetted for 'special treatment' since at least the mid nineties and probably back before Poppy suckered Saddam into Gulf Slaughter 1.
"From those earliest days until now, throughout all the twists and turns, the blood and chaos of the occupation, the Bush administration has kept its eye on this prize. The new law offers the barrelling buccaneers of the West a juicy set of production-sharing agreements (PSAs) that will maintain a fig leaf of Iraqi ownership of the nation's oil industry - while letting Bush's Big Oil buddies rake off up to 75 percent of all oil profits for an indefinite period up front, until they decide that their "infrastructure investments" have been repaid. Even then, the agreements will give the Western oil majors an unheard-of 20 percent of Iraq's oil profits - more than twice the average of standard PSAs, the Independent notes."
I wonder if Joe and Jane Sixpack will ever even realize the significance of this revelation, or if MSM will even make mention of this sweetheart deal the fascists have cooked up with their lapdog satrapy. In a sense, victory was assured as soon as Codpiece pumped his fist in the air and exclaimed 'feels good' when the US began the invasion back in 2003. They knew that getting into Iraq to start their appropriation of the oil fields was the hard part - when that was accomplished they could work up any number of excuses to stay there.
"So Bush's confident strut, his incessant upbeat pronouncements about the war, his complacent smirks, his callous indifference to the unspeakable horror he has unleashed in Iraq - these are not the hallmarks of self-delusion, or willful ignorance, or a disassociation from reality. He and his accomplices know full well what the reality is - and they like it."
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