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and about a million total to bludgeon Iraq into submission and get their oil. Little babies, pregnant women, old grammas and grampas, and every other kind of person shredded, smashed to bits, heads, limbs blown off, guts flying in the air, the half dead screaming in agony. They are cold-blooded killers. They will do anything--ANYTHING--to get control of the world's dwindling oil supply.
South America holds the biggest oil reserves in the western hemisphere, and it is--as Lulu points out--essentially undefended oil (vis a vis the U.S. military). To Bushwhacks, these oil reserves must look like "sitting ducks," there for the taking.
The most vulnerable reserves are in Venezuela's northern province of Zulia on the Caribbean, Ecuador's coastal oil reserves on the Pacific, and the new Brazilian fields off its Atlantic coast. Argentina also had a big oil find recently. These countries have some defensive capabilities, but would likely lose in a one-on-one straightup battle with the U.S. military. Their strongest defenses are, a) having real democracies (unlike our own), and b) economic and political unity (acting together they have a lot of clout).
South America has only one enemy--the U.S. U.S./Bushwhack continent-wide hostility and bad intentions are plainly visible now, in Bolivia--where the Bushwhacks have supported, funded and organized the white separatists in the gas and oil rich eastern provinces, who, over the last few weeks, went on a rampage of rioting, machine-gunning 15-30 peasant farmers, trashing government buildings, beating up anyone they thought was a supporter of Evo Morales' national government, blowing up a gas pipeline, seizing airports and other mayhem, in their effort to split off the eastern provinces into a fascist mini-state in control of Bolivia's main resources. Evo Morales threw U.S. ambassador Philip Goldberg out of Bolivia for his collusion with these murderers and rioters.
This was the first move in a war strategy--likely designed by Donald Rumsfeld--that involves instigating civil war in three countries--Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has spoken of the meetings of these fascist groups and coordination of the three-country strategy. Bolivia and Venezuela are the most vulnerable to it--Bolivia because of the rich white racists in the eastern provinces (Bolivia is a largely indigenous country), and Venezuela in Zulia, which contains Venezuela's main oil reserves, which is adjacent both to the Caribbean (vulnerable to the U.S. 4th Fleet) and Colombia ($6 BILLION in U.S. military aid, through Bushite fingers; fascist thugs and drug traffickers running the government; out of control rightwing death squads murdering union leaders and other leftists), and where the rightwing presidential candidate is now governor. Ecuador is somewhat less vulnerable, but it is adjacent to Colombia, and the U.S./Colombia, earlier this year, did a bombing/raid against Ecuador to kill the chief FARC hostage negotiator, Raul Reyes (who was about to release Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages), nearly causing a war between Ecuador and Colombia.
Correa has an 80% approval rating--one of the highest of the new leftist presidents (only Paraguay's new leftist president is higher, with a whopping 92% approval rating). Morales won 67% of the votes in a recent referendum on his presidency. Chavez's approval rating runs about 60% (he won the last presidential election with 63% of the vote, but then lost a vote on constitutional reforms, by a hair, last December; he nevertheless remains popular). I mention approval ratings because they are a gage of the strength of these countries' democracies--the transparency of their elections, the sturdiness of their government and political institutions, and the loyalty of their people.
The Bushwhacks, of course, have been out for the Chavez government from the beginning--with every kind of attempted subversion, including support of a violent rightwing military coup attempt in 2002, a crippling oil professionals' strike and a Bush-USAID funded recall election. Their efforts to demonize Hugo Chavez as a "dictator" (and, lately, a "terrorist lover," a friend of drug traffickers, and corrupt) have been intense and relentless, and are being escalated. They also recently extended their psyops/disinformation campaign to Rafael Correa (Ecuador) and, over the last few weeks, to Evo Morales (Bolivia). Wherever there is oil, that they think they can take, they start with lies, and--as we know--end with brutal force and mass death.
Checkmated on attacking Iran, they have now turned their sights to South America. And you gotta wonder, with four months left to their junta (presumably; hopefully), why they seem to be starting a new death and mayhem project to steal other peoples' oil.
I think that's what we just saw this week, with the mayhem in Bolivia--the start of Oil War II-South America. Who will carry it out? McBush (Diebolded into power)? Obama (say, presented with a fait accompli war, he's trapped into it, or even supports it)? Is this a "Washington consensus" war--an agreed upon goal of our national political establishment? Or is it some Bushwhacky thing--a last-ditch effort to regain global corporate predator control of oil fields in this hemisphere--that will be abandoned in the change of administrations? Or--a third possibility--will this war be pursued with 'private' means--say, with the billions stolen from us in Iraq, the creation of private armies (Blackwater is active in Colombia), the recruitment of Colombian paramilitary death squads and local fascist militias, perhaps coordinated by Rumsfeld? In the latter case, they would use the U.S. military opportunistically, if they could get it, but proceed with the private war, with or without direct U.S. government support.
In Dec 07, Rumsfeld published an op-ed in WaPo mainly about Chavez, in which he urges "swift action" by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies" in South America. Whatever does he mean? Sure sounds like U.S. military support for these fascist cells within Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador, upon their declaring their "independence" from their national governments. (His title: "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants Like Chavez." It's mostly about the need for the Colombian "free trade" deal for economic warfare against Venezuela. But he also mentions this "swift action" thing.)
There are a whole lot of reasons to believe that grabbing South American oil, and smashing South American democracy, is a "Washington consensus" strategy, not isolated to the Bushwhacks. The World Bank/IMF (first world loan sharks) have been ousted from the region. The South Americans have formed a "Common Market" (UNASUR) without the U.S. The continent has been swept by a huge leftist tide which includes goals of Latin American self-determination and social justice. That tide is moving north--with a leftist government elected in Nicaragua, leftist governments likely to be elected in El Salvador and Panama within six months, Honduras rebelling against the Bushwhacks and siding with the South American leftists, a remarkably progressive government just elected in troubled Guatemala, and a leftist coming within a hairsbreadth--0.05%--of getting elected president in Mexico in 2006.
Rebellion is in the air. It could even hit the U.S. And our very, very, very corrupt national political establishment is much more aware of this than our Corpo/fascist news media lets on. They keep our people ignorant. But they know.
So, are the Bushwhacks the vanguard of our national political establishment--as they surely have been with regard to Iraq--and they are laying the groundwork for Oil War II, with the fascist insurrection in Bolivia, and the relentless stream of lies about Chavez and other leaders? Or, is this war plan just the death throes of a bankrupt lot of heinous war criminals, with their maniacal dreams of more power?
And, if this is a "Washington Consensus" war plan, are they going to add Lula da Silva to their list, and target Brazil's oil as well?
Lula da Silva, who recently, said, of Chavez: "You can criticize Chavez on a lot of things, but not on democracy."
He is not following the global capitalists' party line, by any means. He has had Chavez's back all along. They are friends and allies. This is the most worrisome development, to our Corpo politicians, I'm sure--South American unity.
One very interesting aspect of this situation is the evidence of rightwing agreement with the left, in Latin America, on at least one item: the sovereignty of Latin American countries. There is evidence of it on the Brazilian right. There was fascinating evidence of it on Mexico's right, when Mexico's rightwing/Corpo president publicly lectured Bush on this issue, in 2007, using Venezuela as an example. Apparently, an assassination plot against Chavez, hatched in the Colombian military, and coordinated with Bushwhack aid to rightwing groups in Venezuela, had been exposed, and all the Latin American leaders knew about it--although we were kept in the dark, of course. Thus, this rightwing president brings it up with Bush, in public! Amazing. Really, my jaw dropped.
With the U.S. economy in meltdown, we can be sure that our Corpo politicians are wondering who to plunder next. Latin America has always been the fallback resource: oil, gas, forests, cheap labor (not to mention the "war on drugs" boondoggle). In the past, we have simply gone in and smashed democratic governments and installed heinous dictators, to do the bidding of our Corpos. It's not going to be so easy this time. (They may need Obama to soften the situation up first. Cynical me.) In fact, I think they will fail--if that is their plan--to take Zulia and whatever else they can get. I do think Zulia is the primary target, because it is on the Caribbean, and they could use that oil then to bully and blackmail governments and peoples, and try to create a leftist-free zone in the arc of the Caribbean/Central America, including the "hump" of South America (Colombia, northern Venezuela).
The Corpos are quite desperate, as all can now see. And they cannot maintain their trillion dollar 'bail-outs' and their trillion dollar Mideast wars without more oil, and more profit from somewhere. And there sit major oil reserves, in our own hemisphere, essentially undefended, except by the strength of transparent vote counting and the election of genuine representatives of the people. And there sit gas reserves as well, and minerals, and fresh water supplies, and zillions of board feet of prime virgin hardwoods in the Amazon, and a vast population of poor people--impoverished by "free trade" and the World Bank--in need of jobs on any terms. You do the math. Will we see our drafted sons and daughters killing peasants in the Amazon jungles and the Andes mountains before this decade is out? I think the odds are dismally high that we will. And I think we will lose--and then become (as we are fast becoming anyway) the biggest "banana republic" on earth.
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