Why the US will not leave Iraq

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Why the US will not leave Iraq
By Pepe Escobar
February 01, 2005

Shi'ites will be in power in the Arab world for the first time in 14 centuries. So Iraqi elections are indeed historic. But it's not for US President George W Bush to proclaim Sunday's elections "a success", even before the results are known: it's for the Iraqi people, those who did and also those who did not vote. The undisputable fact is that apart from the Kurds - who since the first Gulf War in 1991 have lived under American protection - most Iraqis, Sunni or Shi'ite, voter or non-voter, in public or in private, blame the United States for the current chaos and their "liberation" from electricity, water, jobs and security. History may still reveal the case that Sunday's elections under occupation, with rules established by the occupier, suit everyone except the long-suffering 27 million Iraqis.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB01Ak02.html

 

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Why the US will not leave Iraq
By Pepe Escobar
February 01, 2005

Shi'ites will be in power in the Arab world for the first time in 14 centuries. So Iraqi elections are indeed historic. But it's not for US President George W Bush to proclaim Sunday's elections "a success", even before the results are known: it's for the Iraqi people, those who did and also those who did not vote. The undisputable fact is that apart from the Kurds - who since the first Gulf War in 1991 have lived under American protection - most Iraqis, Sunni or Shi'ite, voter or non-voter, in public or in private, blame the United States for the current chaos and their "liberation" from electricity, water, jobs and security. History may still reveal the case that Sunday's elections under occupation, with rules established by the occupier, suit everyone except the long-suffering 27 million Iraqis.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB01Ak02.html

 

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Why the US will not leave Iraq
By Pepe Escobar
February 01, 2005

Shi'ites will be in power in the Arab world for the first time in 14 centuries. So Iraqi elections are indeed historic. But it's not for US President George W Bush to proclaim Sunday's elections "a success", even before the results are known: it's for the Iraqi people, those who did and also those who did not vote. The undisputable fact is that apart from the Kurds - who since the first Gulf War in 1991 have lived under American protection - most Iraqis, Sunni or Shi'ite, voter or non-voter, in public or in private, blame the United States for the current chaos and their "liberation" from electricity, water, jobs and security. History may still reveal the case that Sunday's elections under occupation, with rules established by the occupier, suit everyone except the long-suffering 27 million Iraqis.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB01Ak02.html

 

[Mooseskin Johnny]

RE: Why the US will not l

The US won't leave Iraq until the oil is gone.

 

[Mooseskin Johnny]

RE: Why the US will not l

The US won't leave Iraq until the oil is gone.

 

[Mooseskin Johnny]

RE: Why the US will not l

The US won't leave Iraq until the oil is gone.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Why the US will not l

If they can get a puppet government in there they might be able to pull out militarily. Politically and economically they need Iraq though. They need the cheap oil, but that's a minor consideration. What they really need is to make sure that Iraq, with the second most oil of OPEC nations, doesn't switch to the Euro. It is the one country that could counter Saudi wishes to stick with the USD as oil currency.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Why the US will not l

If they can get a puppet government in there they might be able to pull out militarily. Politically and economically they need Iraq though. They need the cheap oil, but that's a minor consideration. What they really need is to make sure that Iraq, with the second most oil of OPEC nations, doesn't switch to the Euro. It is the one country that could counter Saudi wishes to stick with the USD as oil currency.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Why the US will not l

If they can get a puppet government in there they might be able to pull out militarily. Politically and economically they need Iraq though. They need the cheap oil, but that's a minor consideration. What they really need is to make sure that Iraq, with the second most oil of OPEC nations, doesn't switch to the Euro. It is the one country that could counter Saudi wishes to stick with the USD as oil currency.