Iraq is not about Oil anymore
Ok, yeah, the Iraq war does have a lot to do with controlling the oil in the middle east, but that’s not the real problem anymore.
President bush can say all of his reasons for not pulling troops out of Iraq. He can say he is making progress, but it is a lie. The surge put 30,000 extra troops in Iraq 6 months ago. He now says in just 6 more months he will bring 30,000 troops home and calls this a success.
So basically, bush’s definition of success is to report that in just 6 more months we will be right back where we were 6 months ago. Wow! Thanks george! Only one year to achieve this amazing benchmark for success. Only one year to achieve absolutely nothing! What a pres!
As everyone knows, corporations in the US lobby congress and the president for whatever they want. They bribe there way into legislation that benefits these mega-corporations.
They are the real reason we will not be leaving Iraq anytime soon. Many of these super-corporations have contracts worth billions of dollars that are dependant on the Iraq War being alive and well.
Politicians need the money these corporations give to them to get elected, so don’t count on the democrats to put a stop to the war either. The Iraq war is now about these corporations maintaining their billion-dollar contracts.
From the NyTimes today
Graft in U.S. Army Contracts Spread From Kuwait Base
By GINGER THOMPSON and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: September 24, 2007Major Cockerham is behind bars, accused of orchestrating the largest single bribery scheme against the military since the start of the Iraq war. According to the authorities, the 41-year-old officer, with his wife and a sister, used an elaborate network of offshore bank accounts and safe deposit boxes to hide nearly $10 million in bribes from companies seeking military contracts.
The accusations against Major Cockerham are tied to a crisis of corruption inside the behemoth bureaucracy that sustains America’s troops. Pentagon officials are investigating some $6 billion in military contracts, most covering supplies as varied as bottled water, tents and latrines for troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The inquiries have resulted in charges against at least 29 civilians and soldiers, more than 75 other criminal investigations and the suicides of at least two officers. They have prompted the Pentagon, the largest purchasing agency in the world, to overhaul its war-zone procurement system.
Much of the scrutiny has focused on the contracting office where Major Cockerham worked at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, a world away from Castor in more than miles. Until the buildup to the war in Iraq, it was a tiny outpost with a staff of 7 to 12 people who awarded about $150 million a year in contracts, according to Bryon J. Young, a retired Army colonel and the current director of the Army Contracting Agency.
This is just the tip of the iceburg. This goes all the way to the top. Of course they will go after the lower-level bribe-takers and not go after those high up in the bush administration that began the war just so these corporations could make more money.
Maybe it was part of bush’s plan to battle unemployment. Give a lot of business to a bunch of war contractors because they promise it will create new jobs. But either way you slice it, this administration began a war to benefit several corporations bottom lines.
The oil companies, the war contractors, and the politicians all make money as long as the war continues. Our soldiers die to make sure they get their money. That is the reality.
Keep supporting it and pretending you are supporting our troops as bush likes to repeat all the time. What you are really supporting is our troops dying so politicians and multi-national corporations will make more money. The proof is there. From this story to cheney and haliburton, the proof is right in front of you.
