It Was the Oil and It Is Like Vietnam

[G_j]

From, www.BringThemHomeNow.org

http://bringthemhomenow.org/what/latest.html
also at, www.counterpunch.com/goff09152003.html

(Stan Goff is a member of the BRING THEM HOME NOW! coordinating committee, a retired Special Forces master sergeant, and the father of an active duty soldier.)

The Occupation Runs Out of Gas

It Was the Oil and It Is Like Vietnam
by Stan Goff

Apologists for Bush's little war in
Iraq, whose numbers are diminishing in the face of relentless reality, have invested a mighty labor in dismissing two claims; that the war in Iraq is about oil, and that there is a comparison to be made between the Iraq War and the Vietnam War.

The war was never intended as a liberation, the bullsh*t story that went center stage when the weapons lies fell apart . It was always a re-colonization, now euphemized even by many Democrats as "re-construction."

Nonetheless, the Bush administration believed they would be welcomed as liberators, because Bush has surrounded himself with people whose principle skill is self-delusion, and whose principle aversion is hearing anything that doesn't conform to their preconceptions. If Daddy supervised the tragedy, Junior is supervising the deadly farce.

People who only want to hear good news from their own perspective are easily taken in by con men, and the con man this time was Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi expatriate facing 22 years at hard labor in Jordan for embezzlement. This is the character upon whom Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz--themselves (neo)con men--relied for insight into Iraq, and who told them they'd be welcomed by cheering, flower-bearing, confetti-slinging crowds not unlike Parisians in 1945. That Chalabi hadn't been in Iraq for decades hasn't deterred our intrepid neo-con ideologues. They still want to make Chalabi the Quisling leader of Iraq, under the Kissinger-tutored Viceroy Paul Bremer's.
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[Brucey]

1. Love the line calling Bush admin "neo (con) men."

Many people (80%) were conned. Even most elected Dems. However, there were some of us who were right. When do we get to be in charge? As Gene McCarthy said, "Sorry I was right."

[G_j]

2. never heard that quote from Eugene

priceless!

Yes, it seems most of us here weren't conned for one minute.

[G_j]

3. an evening kick

[peace4all]

4. "Rumsfeld appears to be Bush's Rasputin."

Stan Goff is quite the writer, and he sure understands the military.

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Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board has usurped the Department of Defense, just like Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's "whiz kids" that oversaw the Vietnam defeat. If McNamara was Johnson's bad counsel, Rumsfeld appears to be Bush's Rasputin. Another flim-flam artist, with his silly robo-war doctrine. Even the generals despise this arrogant pretender. The generals apparently still remember Vietnam, about which Bush's cabinet has experienced a deep amnesia, but even they--especially they--will protect their careers and remain largely silent as they are led into the swamp.
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[G_j]

5. yea, Goff is great but Im sick of trying

I don't think there is anyone left here who gives a flying $%@(&.
You know, I find some pretty damn good articles. I often notice that Truthout ends up carrying many of the same articles. I search for relevant, breaking and interesting stuff. But I'm really tired of trying to share with ya'll. Kicking my own threads sucks and I start to feel like an idiot. It takes too long to put this stuff together. I'm seriously considering not posting any more of the stuff I find. anyway, that's my little goodbye to GD sort of rant, posted in a thread that will die in a few minutes, so know one will notice anyway.:-) :shrug:
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