Blood for Oil:
How Should We Oppose Imperialist War?

by Azine Boston
3/18 /03

The United States and its meager coalition of the subservient are going to war. They will soon begin by firing 3,000 to 4,000 “smart bombs,” several times what was dropped or fired during 1991 Gulf War. The aim will be, in bloodless military euphemisms, to “shock and awe” Iraq by blowing much of the country apart, along with the collateral damage of civilian mothers, fathers, and children. A U.S. and English blitzkrieg invasion will follow this. This will be an attack on a country with an enfeebled defensive capability, 80% destroyed since the Gulf War. It’s like a massive beating of a prone but abusive cripple.

The U.S. will then occupy and rule the country and control the second largest reserve of oil in the world. It will also place an army in the Middle East, controlling the world’s supply of oil. The U.S. will be positioned to maintain its hegemony as the “sole superpower,” a goal outlined in the U.S.’s recent revised National Security Strategy and long desired by the hard right wing that controls the Bush administration. Future targets may include Syria and Iran (as well as North Korea, for different reasons). The chicken hawk cohort of vice-president Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, Defense Advisory Richard Perle, and other white guys has nursed this empire building since the Nixon administration. They see it as a hedge against China and other competitors to U.S. supremacy. They are the anti-democratic, rabid right wing that has pushed the conservative, if not reactionary drift of the U.S. elite over the last three decades.

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