US Occupation of Iraq: A Reason to be Proud!

Every day now more and more Americans are waking up to the realization of a fact that many of us were aware of, that most of the rest of the world was aware of, as far back as early 2003 – the fact that sending our military into Iraq would be a disastrous mistake, that it would cut a wound so deep and so wide throughout the Muslim world, decades would pass before healing would ever be possible.

But the deed was done, and the consequences are now shaping up to be even worse than those of us who opposed the war had anticipated.

Death, suffering, poverty, disease, and conflict are going to plague the Iraqi people for many years to come. And yet those responsible don’t seem to be overly concerned about the destruction they’ve wrought. Is this possibly because their priorities, carved in stone some twenty or thirty years ago, have always been about control of the region’s resources and never about the welfare of it’s inhabitants.

Motivated not so much by greed as by fear really, are they trying desperately to stave off an impending approach of the peak oil phenomenon?

Is it their hope to grab up as much of the world’s remaining fossil fuels as they can so that, when the wells begin to dry up, we Americans, along with those we call allies, will be assured an extra degree of comfort while the rest of the world scrambles about for diminishing supplies of heat, electricity, water, and food?

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