From the beginning, George Bush and friends have insisted that there was only one plan for Iraq… Plan A.
Nobody, not even Condi Rice, wanted to speculate about any Plan B.
So let’s go over plan A.
First, invade a beaten, sanction-starved and bombed-out country that happens to be sitting on the third largest oil reserve in the world, and then grab the oil fields, while letting everything else descend into chaos.
“Stuff happens” says Don Rumsfeld.
Then disband the Iraqi army and the police force, who might have been able to keep law and order in the chaotic situation, and then institute CPA order #17 which states that US military personnel and contractors can not be prosecuted under Iraqi law for crimes they commit.
Then, turn the previous leader over to a gang of thugs who hang him, and then start a multi-year occupation of the country, using strong-arm tactics on the population, and causing untold “collateral damage”. As things get worse, continue to occupy the country without end, killing tens of thousands of Iraqis, many being innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire.
Then maintain the conditions for mass sectarian killings, low grade civil war, mass refugee movements, and further chaos everywhere. Let the local militias do whatever they want in their areas of influence.
Then tell the American public on the TV that a continued heavy-handed military occupation of Iraq is essential to quell the same violence caused by the invasion and draconian occupation of Iraq. Tell the American people with a straight face that leaving Iraq will result in the very same problems that invading Iraq caused.
Turn an oil-rich country into cauldron of death so that you have an excuse to stay there forever with your military. Cause all the death and destruction, and then warn that the obvious solution - ending the military occupation - will make the chaos you caused worse. This is akin to stepping on a hornets nest, but then refusing to back away from the swarm of stinging hornets because moving away will make the hornets angrier… “they might follow you home”.
Once you have made a total mess of Iraq, and allowed sectarian killing and mass displacement to go unchecked for years, then you could threaten to repeat the entire process in Iran to ensure you have an endless excuse to keep your military in the region… right near the oil.
So when someone asks you, “why would they consider something so crazy as bombing Iran?” You can reply “Plan A friend, Plan A”.
Dr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published articles on the nervous and immune systems. Dr. Moffett is also the author and webmaster of the political opinion website www.Factinista.org, and is a Managing Editor at OpEdNews.com.
...Project for the New American Century. But then when you read that you learn that it could not have been started without a crisis similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor. That was a part of Plan A as well. Note the recent revelation by a French professor that Chirac queried him about what Bush was saying concerning Gog and Magog in the weeks preceeding the Iraq invasion. Nice blend there, neocon imperial objectives and cult dreams of Armageddon and The Rapture. If Plan A isn't madness I don't know what is.
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Pat Williams (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 81 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 2:22:09 PM
Gentlemen, gentlemen, as Julia Louise Dreyfus said at Wrigley Field before singing the National Anthem, when Cub 1st baseman Derek Lee decked, pitcher Young (or tried to), "Play Nice!"
I think you are being uncivil to the poor, oh-so deprived, Bushites, after all, they've hardly gotten over not being able to fix the 2006 elections and now their favorite Prince-Erik, the CEO of Blackwater, is in trouble.
Cut the poor Bushites some slack, losing elections can be ever so traumatic to those not used to democracy, like the Bushites. After all, they've been sleeping since the Nixon Impeachment thingee to awaken and find that the rip-roaring democrats of that bygone era are forever gone and they have no one to fight with but a bunch of greedy democrat impersonators who look an awful lot like them and are almost as corrupt and buyable as they. Finind no one to fight with is even more traumatic. Every time they raise their voices, the phony democrats run and hide like impotent guys at a whore house-and congress on both sides of the aisle with few exceptions (Kucinich for one) is not quite as respectable as a whorehouse.
So, you have to be a little bit more understanding, the Neo-cons love a fight (when they seriously outnumber their opponents) but the Dems won't fight, they have, in fact, pleasured themselves in the ancient art of Yellowbelly, corporate money-grabbing, slime-balls, and as so refuse to fight and refuse to try to strap on a broom handle, where once a spinal column stood, now only jelly lies, jiggling around.
Being without belief, without honor, without philosophy, electing mush guts like Pelosi, and money-firsters like Emanuel, is proof positive that all is lost at the top and it is only time, lest an enormous Act of God in the form of the Angels of Death, The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse, swoops down and saves us (which I highly doubt) OR SUPERMAN arrives in the nick of time.
No, just as Australopithecus Afarensis through Homo-erectus through Neanderthal died off and just as we killed off the American Natives, and Thulsa Doom wiped from the face of the Earth the tribe of the Cimmerians, and Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo, known as "Hawkeye" presided over his pal, the Last of The Mohicans, we, men of honor and justice are the last of that breed. We, who see a farther star, justice, fair play, love, and altruism, have been superceded by a generation, which watched, too damned much TV, Cable and Vid-games and value money, ring-tones (my cell rings like a real phone, how 'bout that!) We are the last of The Just, and both sides of the One Party Aisle will wipe us out just as Stalin and Mao wiped out belief in anything we cannot see, hear eat and Shag.
It is over guys, all that remains is whether or not we die of aging process, or the toxins the idiots in our neighborhoods use on cosmetic additive lawns and mosquitoes, or die writing what we believe.
Gentlemen when was the last time you lived next door to a hero without a gun? When was the last time you knew a man who would stand up until the end? I submit that among us are a few and there are not many more, who are willing to give their lives, unforced for a few sheets of paper containing what they hold sacred.
Now when I want inspiration I llok at the art of the great painters, who actually knew how to draw or I watch, Song of Bernadette, or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, some other depression era, good old black and white movies, or read about The Era of FDR.
Good Night, and God Bless-Good job JRM
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Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 94 diaries, 1185 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 9:08:14 PM
PetetheProf, Ah, how true are your words, and I'm not even an American.
Sad to say Pete, the "ILLNESS" prevading within our societies today, is something World wide. Something in the air comes to mind.
Here in Ozz, we're being subjected to a lead up to an election and the bullshit being spouted by BOTH parties has to be heard to be believed.
Sad to say, the younger folk,(that is anthing from 45 back to 18 are swallowing it all, hook line and sinker. Of course the money being spent and the media sources available today, to such Parties is phenomenal and wide reaching, specially the TV, folks these days seem to think whatever they see hear on the flamin box is gospel.
They say "we get the Government we deserve" and I find no argument with that saying these days, Democracy ? DUH ! what the hell is that ?
Our Politicions make laws without so much as a by your leave from the citizens, actually, it would be more honest to name such rulings, DECLARATIONS, they then enforce same with an iron fist, God help you if your get caught breaching any of them.
The future to me is very bleak indeed, can't see any bright spots there at all, and from where I sit, it would appear our citizenry have surrendered ay right they ever held to having any say therein quiet readily and willingly.
The only thing worth hanging around for, is to see the outcome of our coming election, whether the masses have finally got some balls, and told these SOB's where to go, if not, sad to say, the land of Ozz will be no more.
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Eddy Schmid (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 189 comments)
on Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 4:10:57 AM
