While Bush’s NSA is busy spying on us, Iraq is conducting their newly found democracy to fix what Bush broke did while chasing terrorists. What happened to all the money Bush demanded to reconstruct Iraq’s infra-structures?
I am beginning to think that Iraq was The Diversion Tactic for us peons while Bush & Co. plundered American’s constitution.
1/The Daily Star, Lebanon–IRAQ NEEDS $20 BILLION TO REHABILITATE ELECTRICTY SECTOR (Iraq needs $20 billion over the next five years to solve a chronic electricity crisis after U.S. reconstruction funds failed to flick the right switches, the Iraqi electricity minister said. “When you lose electricity the country is destroyed, nothing works, all industry is down and terrorist activity is increased,” Mohsen Shlash said Tuesday. … “The American donation is almost finished and it was not that effective. They did a few power plants, yes, but that definitely is not worth $4.7 billion,” said the minister, adding that some of the work carried out was worth just one-tenth of the money being spent.)
2/Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Iran–IRAN, IRAQ DISCUSS BUILDING ELECTRICITY TRANSFER PLANTS (Iran’s Charge d’Affaires in Iraq Hassan Kazemi met here Monday with Iraqi electricity Minister Abd al-Muhsin Shalash. They discussed implementing the signed agreement including the expediting building nine electricity transfer plants. Shalash expressed his country’s readiness for reconstruction of its electricity sector with Iran’s assistance. He also called for implementing electricity projects from credit allocated by Iran for Iraq’s reconstruction drive. After the meeting, Kazemi told IRNA that given Iraq’s electricity needs and Iran’s experiences in the field, the electricity sector is the highlight of the two neighbors’ cooperation. … Iran has allocated one billion dollars to the reconstruction of Iraqi infrastructural projects, he said, adding the major portion of the fund will be spent on electricity industry.)
I have no problem with Iraq turning to a neighbor for some of life’s necessities like electricity, but with the saber rattling Bush is doing with Iran, I am concerned about this ‘arrangement.’
Anybody else think the war in Iraq was the REAL diversionary tactic?
I don’t think the war waged in Iraq is itself diversionary, though clearly the rhetoric describing the (supposed) justification for said war is intended to be a total deception.
Likewise, the stated goals of this insane war are also excercizes in deception. This war is, after all, but a preamble to a much larger, much more insidious agenda formulated by the empire building delusionals of the Neocon crowd.
This war has never really been about Saddam Hussein and his cruelty, or about the threat he supposedly representedtothe region or the world, and certainly this war has nothing to do at all with “liberating” oppressed people or “spreading democracy and freedom”.
Cheney, et.al. view the ultimate control of the vast energy reserves in the region as a strategic necessity for the “national interests” of the US, and in the insanity of their arrogance they believe the US, because of it’s position of power in the world, deserves to control those energy reserves come hell or high water. they’ll say anything, do anything, kill anyone and everyone that might stand in their way with virtually no hesitiation in order to achieve that control.
In this sense, Iraq is a diversion; the war is portrayed as an effort to bring about something noble, while the real motive is greed and an abiding, pathologically dysfunctional lust for power by a gang of insane megalomaniacs.
It doesn’t matter if Iraq gets its electiricity now or in 10 years because the US government, in collusion with private industry, can simply wait things out, or so that is the thinking.
The thinking is that the insurgency won’t go on forever. It is more important to privatize Iraq industries at this point, than to actually restore them.
Yers! The most importantthing from the Cheney perspective is to keep the conflict alive and murderous. Having reliable delivery of water and electric would have the effect of diminishing the base level of disappointment and anger amongst the populace, and less angry people are usually less violent people.
Ergo, make sure things stay screwed up, loot the Iraqi national treasure by privatizing the oil industry, and keep not spending wisely to repair infrastructure.
“Yers” = “Yes”.