It’s also clear that the Bushite-Reaganites wanted to do it even if it meant ignoring the human rights and civil liberties of those they suspect stand in their way, which is clear in all their "security" policies, from the U.S. "Patriot Act" to the treatment of prisoners in the prisons in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and other places not so well known. (See the page on Bush’s Real Record and War.)
Of course, the Republican Neo-Conservatives claim to have the best of intentions, and they may even believe that. In fact, they may actually believe their agenda is really in the best interests of all the people in the world. But, when you examine their plan, their actions, and the impact of their actions, that claim does not ring true. As the PNAC document clearly reveals, and as their actions have proven, they want to be in a position to use American financial and military power to influence and even dictate what happens in the whole world, particularly in the oil-rich Mid-East, and even in the Caspian Sea region, which has the potential of becoming one of the world’s major oil and natural gas sources. (And that, by the way, is one of the main causes of the conflict between Georgia, Russia and the United States, as I discussed on the page title The Third Cold War.)
That is further confirmed in another right-wing document titled Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century. It describes how America is facing the biggest energy crisis in its history. Long before Bush started to beat his war drum against Iraq this document described how Saddam Hussein must be "targeted as a threat to American interests" because of his control of Iraqi oil fields, and how the use of "military intervention" should be used as a means to fix the U.S. energy crisis. The report was commissioned by James Baker, the former U.S. Secretary of State under the elder George Bush, and it was submitted to Vice-President Dick Cheney in April 2001, five months before the September 11 terrorist attack. That makes it very clear that Bush’s policy of using military force against Iraq was planned long before he has claimed, and is designed to gain access to and control Middle Eastern oil fields.
That’s why so many people in the U.S. and around the world have been accusing Bush of waging a war for oil, and that’s why his steadfast denials have been so disingenuous and even dishonest and hypocritical. The two oil men, Bush and Cheney, clearly served the interests of U.S. oil companies, and that was confirmed by the fact that Cheney’s former company, Halliburton, was given the green light for repair, maintenance and operations of the oil fields in "post-war" Iraq. In fact, according to documents discovered in August 2003, Halliburton won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom, and stood to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no_bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Of course, the American corporate network media has not and does not report things like that, but it is nevertheless true. That is why we must totally repudiate and reject the right-wing Republican Neo-Conservative agenda, and we must reject John McCain. For he wants to become president in 2009 to perpetuate all the Republican folly and U.S. Military-Industrial dominance. So Americans must instead choose a path that will lead to what is in the best interests of all people of their nation and world.
On a wider scale, we the people of the world have a lot of work to do to come together and become the united family of humanity. And the first step is to recognize, stop and prevent any and all forms of imperialism, colonialism, and foreign control of any country.
That would mean, for example, getting Israeli troops out of all Palestinian areas and ensuring that the Palestinians finally have at least part of their home land back (see the page on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict). It would mean getting ALL foreign military forces out of countries where they don’t really belong, including U.S. forces. And it would mean strengthening the United Nations so that it truly serves the best interests of all the people of the world, and so U.N. peace-keeping forces can deal effectively with outlaw groups, terrorist groups, and rogue nations and regimes. Military bases now occupied by one foreign power (like the U.S.) could be instead used by U.N. peace-keeping forces.
The only way we can progress forward will be through a revived and empowered United Nations. In fact, it must be a new and improved U.N., truly representative of all the nations of the world, governed by an executive council freely chosen by U.N. representatives of each nation. No individual person would have sovereign executive power. Rather, power would be shared by a representative international executive council, and the security council, which would ensure the equal rights of each nation, and of all people in the world. There would be an effective legislative and policy-making body, and a strong law enforcement and peace-keeping force, which will not only lay down international laws and enforce them, but also keep the peace.
This is an absolute necessity, because we, the people of the world, must have the ability and the power to rescue people who are being oppressed or persecuted, whether it be by their own government, by an internal group, by an occupying foreign force, or by a puppet government supported by a foreign government. We must look out for our own, and "our own" must become each and every one of our fellow human beings on the face of the earth. We are all members of one family of humanity, and we must act like it.
I tell Americans this as a brother and fellow American, because while the U.S. does indeed have a legitimate reason to want to bring to justice the terrorists who attacked and killed thousands of Americans in their home land on September 11, 2001, Americans must now realize that they should act through the auspices and authorization of a reformed and strengthened United Nations, and stop trying to play big brother and policeman of the world. Let George W. Bush be the last head of state to pursue global imperialist policies.
Re-posted from: http://reformationcomingsoon.bravehost.com/NeoImperialism.html
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