The U.S. will not get to determine who controls Iraq, so it's sort of a moot point. The Iraqi elections will determine who runs the country. I'm sure we'll do everything we can to influence the outcome of those elections, but that is a far cry from selecting a person who will be placed in the government for the sole purpose of safeguarding contracts with private U.S. companies.
The U.S. will determine what group gets elected. That's a certainty. They will fund the group they want in power and they will undermine the group(s) they don't want in power. The message wll be clear: You want US aid? Then this group (the one America wants, the one that will uphold contracts and pay offs to companies from America) will be in power. If they ever stablize the country and that's a big IF, America will influence the elctions via financial funding, media campaigns, and a partnership with the rich and powerful of Iraq. Opposition groups won't have a chance.
This isn't palistine, where HAMAS was the popular elected group and won the election and the US ended it's fanancial aid as a result. this is Iraq where America has invested economic interests in it's resources. The ONLY way for that not to happen in Iraq is if the insurgency wins. The insurgency knows they cannot win in a fiancial media war in a democratic arena with the united states backed groups in Iraq. So they are doing what America has failed to stop in Nam and now in Iraq.
I don't trust the government. I don't trust them with my money and I don't trust them to safeguard my liberties. That's why the courts and the media play such an important role (even though I detest the media). I understand our government is not beyond doing very bad things. What I don't buy is the theory that we went to war to steal oil or to benefit Halliburton. You cannot follow the theory from start to finish without including some rather absurd propositions. It doesn't make any sense.
One thing that seems to find it's way into converstions is "conspiracy". This is no conspiracy. It's the nature of the beast. It's what we do. It's how we control things and protect our interests. I used to view our government and it's actions much like you do. then about 10 years ago i started looking at alternantive sources of news and information and began to realize a few things:
"The Government of the United States is continually in the act of spewing propaganda in order to manipulate and or manage public opinion"
Here's some basic propaganda regarding this war:
- WMD's
- We are there to establish democracy
- People in the middle east don't want democracy
- Sadaam was a (real time) threat to the security of the United States
All of that is BULL Cha Cha.
We are not going to do anything unless there is something in it for us.
Be that:
- controlling oil distribution
- Geo-political influence
- Military influence
We didn't go in there on a charity mission.
Concerning Haliburton: (Haliburton is one of the many things we are there to benefit from) Just use some common sense:
- How ethical is a "no-bid" contract in the first place?
- Don't you think there is a serious conflict of interest with Dick Cheney being that he has strong ties with Haliburton?
- If Dick Cheney had 1 shread of integrity he would have insisted on a "bidding contract" and discourage the government from awarding Haliburton the contract.
That is plain curruption at the highest level of Governement.
Do you really think for 1 second during the time from 9/11 to the start of the Iraq war that Haliburton and Dick Cheney didn't know how a US invasioin and take over of Iraq would benefit Haliburton and how Dick Cheney could arrange "no-bid" contracts for them?
Do you think that there wasn't any motivation on the Part of Cheney and Bush in that regard to invade Iraq? It's was all part of the fruits of conquest. Do you think this Halaburton thing happened by chance?
It's simple common sense here.
this is what is soo gauling to me: They have pretty much waved this corruption in front of our faces and the American people are soo Glazed over by their TV shows and Movie stars to pay any mind to it.