by StarmanSkye » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:53 pm
Yes, I too think Dreyfuss provides an excellant analysis, and agree with his thesis that the many details of America's Iraq policy were deliberately contrived for intended effect, and as such is essentially pretty-much still on-track; The radical neoliberal formula instituted by Bremer (as per orders re: a meticulous plan enabling unprecedented opportunity for corporate pillaging on a massive scale) constituted cold-blooded, brutal and opportunistic calculation. Of course an authentic democracy would NEVER endorse let alone accept the enormous giveaway advantages granted to foreign businesses and that virtually guarantees the Iraq public its own disempowered exploitation -- so the piecemeal fragmentation and dissolution of Iraqi society had to be a key US strategy in order to prevent effective organized challenge to those entirely illegal 'laws'. Thus, even the seemingly problematic, counter-productive 'mistakes' of disbanding the Iraq Military and removing all Ba'athists from their civil service, professional and career positions must be seen, in retrospect, as being deviously practical and even necessary.<br><br>As Dreyfuss points out, the neocon-led gamble indeed MAY yet triumph. With the GOP mostly in single-minded cohesive solidarity and the majority of Democrats agreeing in principle that despite the war's false, duplicious premise it MUST be supported at all costs, the American leadership apparently lacks the moral clarity, courage and sufficient integrity to confront the fact of its criminal complicity in the abuses, war crimes and genocide the US has been engaged in -- all reflective of the immense racism behind America's double standards and latent hypocrisy that discounts innocent Iraqi lives as incredibly cheap. This 'allows' America's politicos and Generalisimos and functionaries to evade the issue of responsibility. The blood of perhaps 200,000 Iraqi citizens is on the Bush Gang's dirty hands, with uncounted horrors and tortures and atrocities and sufferings -- while Saddams odious 'crimes' with which he's charged constitute at best a tiny portion of this magnitude -- almost one percent of Iraq's total population. It would be as if a foreign power invaded America on the basis of transparently specious lies and killed some 3 million American civilians. This point is underscored by the evident hostility of American 'leaders' to the issue of amnesty for Iraqis who may have killed American troops (who, after all, were an illegal invading army of occupation guilty of immense atrocities, humiliations, destruction and depraved brutalities). And yet, in all but very few cases, American deliberate (or thru depraved indifference) killings of Iraqi innocents remain uninvestigated, unreported and often even uncompensated, or minimally so (and often not even apologized for).<br><br>From the article cited:<br>" An aide to Maliki even suggested an amnesty for armed fighters who have killed U.S. troops. That's a good idea, and it's been raised more than once since 2003. In this case, though, an ignorant Sen. Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and Senate minority leader, expressed outrage at the idea of an amnesty. According to the Washington Post, which first reported the amnesty idea, the Maliki aide who suggested it was fired."<br><br>There's not even a single point re: America's gratuitous and wholly opportunistic invasion of Iraq that can be judged a positive, beneficial thing, NOT tied to issues of greed or abuse of power or rewarding the MIC.<br><br>60 years ago, the CIAs' role in subverting justice and soverignty in the Middle East and Central America (and elsewhere), and undermining democratic institutions SHOULD have been widely publicized, investigated, and those responsible through the chain of command prosecuted and severely punished as an object lesson. It was the American System's failure (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) to stand-up for critical principles of Law that has led to this current Constitutional Crisis of illegal wars, war crimes and atrocities, Executive criminality and endemic corruption throughout the Defense Industry, Congress and the Intelligence Agencies.<br><br>Very often, political decisions and Foreign Policy actions DO have serious, long-lasting consequences that affect many millions of people's lives. That 'lesson' is something the ruling class elites have gone to enormous lengths to prevent the public from learning -- or else the American individuals and government organizations involved in illegally conspiring to place Saddam into power would have paid dearly for their crimes, and policy that allowed such abuse would have been substantially reformed to prevent any repeats of such irresponsible idiocies.<br><br>Alas ...<br>Starman <p></p><i></i>
