This will take at least a few months. George's friends in the military industrial complex have to build a new batch of cruise missiles. Military products are the Bush family business, don't forget, starting with the Carlyle Group. Bush will give them enough time to make another ten or twenty billion dollars, and then, as, remarkably, the Iraqis chaos seems to be settling down, as the IMF and WTO and WB parasitically settles in, getting comfortable, forcing the Iraq to allow UK and US oil corporations to "help" privatize Iraqi oil for pennies on the dollar, George will turn his attention to Syria, discover unacceptable aid to Iraq, declare Syria a terrorist nation (it is one) and go full blast into Syria and its controlled "colony," Lebanon.
Israel will rejoice. After all, Syria has, through it's proxy state, Lebanon, rained Katyusha rockets on Israel since the Intifada began. Israel will probably use the new Syrian-Lebanese war to ramp up its occupation of the west bank and Gaza.Here's where it gets interesting. Outside of the Iraqis who have been rejoicing on camera for Fox and its sell-out alleged journalist colleagues whoa re really propagandists for the Bush regime, most Arabs are very upset about what the US did to Iraq and Saddam. They all agree that Saddam was a bad guy, but to them, Bush is worse. Just like much of the rest of the world, they think Bush is the most dangerous man on the planet. So, they listen very carefully when Rummy, Wolfowitz and Powell talk negatively about Syria, the next target on the neoconservative, Project for a New American Century hit-list. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya-- they've all been given naked, unveiled threats or suggestions that they are a little further down the target line.
So... what if they don't wait? Unlike Iraq, which had been militarily castrated for 12 years, Syria, Saudi Arabia Iran and Libya have been on spending sprees buying weapons of mass destruction-- fighter jets, smart bombs, GPS technology. They have money, troops, and allies. They own good chunks of the US and could send the stock market into a further spiral that might make new records. What if they not only pull all their investments out of the US, and stop supplying oil to the US, but they also decide that, since they're in line as targets anyway, they decide to fight back. What if they attack our fleets, bomb the Iraqi and Kuwaiti airbases and do horrendous damage to our troops? They will surely do Haliburton a favor and ignite hundreds of oil wells, and destroy pipelines. Of course, they could not defeat our combined forces. But they could do incredible damage to our Middle East troops and military position, overtaxed as it is.
Of course, any such action will draw our remaining allies Bulgaria, Poland and Australia into the fray. Great Britain has said it does not want a part of any further war plans. NATO's participation will be questionable, since we've taken such extreme measures to distance and alienate them. We'll probably be unable to keep Israel out of it, since surely, Syria will lob more than Katyusha rockets at Israel's major cities.
This is a terrifying scenario. But is it any harder to imagine than the Supreme court aiding and abetting the Governor of Florida and his Corrupt election commissioner in the theft of the presidency of the United States?
Once we reach the point described, with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, and possibly Libya involved in a regional conflagration, the religious far right-- the 50 million readers of the Left Behind book series that explores life on the planet after "the Rapture" when the messiah comes back, at the "end times" as predicted in the New Testament-- may actually be happy about what's going on. They will be a big part of the Positive poll numbers George W. will surely pull when his media partners at the major polling groups ask the "right" questions. Matter of fact, they've surely played a major roll in Bush 70+ support figures he's been pulling since the war began. These religious supporters see the Iraq war as a step closer to meeting their messiah and leaving this earth.
With India and Pakistan juggling Nukes, just waiting for an excuse to drop them, with N. Korea and Israel primed and ready to go with their own nukes, it's time for the congress to pass a bill, really fast that makes it clear that the war it authorized with Iraq was the limit of the authorization, that any attack on any other country is strictly forbidden. That's something for the democratic party and the candidates to endorse and to get behind in a big hurry.
Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world leaders, such as the Winter Brain Meeting and the StoryCon Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story This article is copyright by Rob Kall, but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so long as this credit is attached.
