Bush's transfer of power gambit (maintaining US hegemony in Iraq)

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FD23Ak02.html

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The guerrilla resistance, combined with Washington's bungling of the occupation, have compelled President George W Bush and his neo-conservative advisors to reconfigure or shelve several of their more grandiose post-war plans. But the US government has no intention to simply relinquish its expensively obtained hegemony over a Baghdad government possessing the world's second largest proven petroleum reserves and strategically located to influence the entire Middle East.

The US must execute three complex maneuvers to accomplish its goal:

1. Inducing the United Nations to become an active partner in Iraq, providing the White House with respectable support and camouflage for its endeavors in exchange for the appearance of shared authority.

2. Taking measures to ensure that a huge American occupation force remains in the country, and that Washington will exercise great influence over the new permanent government and Iraq's economy by establishing a virtual parallel regime of its own in Baghdad.

3. Containing the resistance by any means necessary - from massive retaliation against the Sunni fighters and their new allies led by Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, to making deals with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the principal leader of the majority Shi'ite population. The entire plan may fail unless the resistance is destroyed or reduced to occasional attacks against Pentagon-controlled Iraqi security forces.

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you forgot Israel

be undone. All those oil field sales will be permanent. Gee, I wonder why the Iraqis are trying to throw us out.

a "Status of Forces Agreement?" :freak:

I wonder how many of these 3,000 diplomats will have to meet untimely deaths before this charade falls apart too?

and discuss an alternative. Bush never discussed this with the country though it was his real reason for going in there. All we heard was a bunch of trumped up warnings about false WMD's.

Turn this foreign policy/economic disaster against them bigtime. Now is the time to call for a fundemental change in our future. It's really quite simple.

Republicans = Oil = Foreign Policy = No National Security = Wars of Occupation = Dead End

Democrats = Alternative/renewable energy = US jobs reinvestments = a real future for America

The two different policy courses are as a plain as day as you outlined them. The republican constellation of interests is reactionary and obscurantist and will inexorably lead to a diastrous end on the present course.

One could easily see a deus ex machina of WWIII if we continue with the present thoughtless policies based upon immature notions of power and dominance left over from the 19th Century.

...it doesn't deserve. It isn't going to work. The policy was conceived in fraudulent delusion and will go down in flames. It can't be saved. As Biden pointed out, there is no plan. But even Biden's plan, which would be a real gambit, won't work. There are some things that you do so wrong in human affairs there is no fixing it. The chimp opened Pandora's box and sealed his political fate. This could get really extreme. One can easily anticipate WWIII type scenarios evolving from this policy diaster.

The defense industry is loving this.

I seriously doubt that the Iraqis are going to accept
this colonization. Why anyone thinks that the UN that laid down sanctions that caused much sufering for Iraqis and made deals with Saddam for oil money will now be accepted by Iraqis
to lay out colonization plans is beyond me.

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