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War On Terrorism or War On Iraq For Oil?

Comment by Larry Ross, June 7, 2005

Paul Rogers is one of the best analysts on the Iraq war. Like most academics, he writes within the stated US definitions of the conflict and explanations of the stated purposes of their actions. However he also exposes how absurdly unrealistic and counterproductive these actions are.

This is not a US war against terrorism. It is a US war to create real terrorism in a population where there was none. It is a war for oil; and a war to extend US domination over the middle east. It is part of an ongoing US war for global empire.

It is a war designed to alienate a large part of the global population - Islam - and turn them into enemies. It is a war designed to put the US on a continuing war footing, to facilitate further wars, and feed the US military/industrial complex.

Given the continuing co-operation of the US mass media and democratic opposition, in reflecting and disseminating Bush Administration propaganda and lies, this strategy will effectively harness the energies, resources, beliefs and loyalties of the American population.

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Bush’s credibility gulf

Paul Rogers, June 2, 2005

The gap between the United States’s words and deeds in Iraq and Afghanistan is sowing bitter seeds that George W Bush’s successors will harvest.

The gravity of security conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan seems finally to have impacted on the George W Bush administration, with reports this week of a serious rethink of the conduct of the “global war on terror” now underway in Washington (see Susan B Glasser, “Review May Shift Terror Policies”, Washington Post, 29 May 2005). But there is evidence that the review’s conclusions will reinforce rather than address the problems it seeks to identify.

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