Iraqaphobia: The Inevitable War

athena.tbwt.com By Rufus G. W.  Sanders TBWT Contributor Article Dated 1/13/2003

To date the president have not been able to convince the thinking-American-public and indeed the discerning world that to go to war against Iraq is the just and the moral thing to do. But that's probably because he has not been totally honest and open with the American people. The evidence that he gives is not only flimsy at best for war justification, but according to the UN weapons inspectors is non existent.

The inspectors to date have not seen nor discovered any signs of the much taunted and prohibited biological weapons of mass destruction that the Bush people have purported that the Iraqis have. They won't even share with the world the so called smoking guns of evidence that they and the British supposedly have to substantiate what is fastly becoming Railean- like claims of legitimacy.

While the president continues to claim that he hopes that war can be avoided; he has already moved over a 100,000 American soldiers to the Gulf region. It's obvious that he is hell bent on war no matter what the outcome is of the final UN inspectors report. I submit that by February 1, the United States will more than likely declare war against The Republic of Iraq. This has been the single most thing on the mind of George Bush ever since he took office as president of the United States.

At this point for him not to rush to war would make him advisors look like the insensitive tunnel visioned bunch of arrogant power craze egomaniacs that they really are on this issue.

He goes to war because it would be a huge and reckless waste of the billions of dollars that has already been taken from the deficit ridden national treasury to mobilize such a large and unnecessary armada that now surrounds Iraq.

He goes to war because this becomes an imperialistic opportunity to send a message of force to the North Koreans and the Iranians that rather than negotiate through conversation and diplomacy; America alone will decide who is allowed to have nuclear weapons on this planet and who's not to have them.

He goes to war to send a message to the Chinese rather than talk to them directly about their dubious record of support for terrorist's camps around the globe and their lucrative commercial trade in weapons of mass destruction. The entire world knows that it is China who sold nuclear secrets to the Pakistani's, who then passed them on to the North Koreans, who then sold them to Yemen; which we then permitted.

So rather than deal with the real problem; which is Chinese support of terrorism; we sagaciously and rather sheepishly send them this veiled message at the expense of millions of Iraqi people who will die, but who to this date has done nothing to us. Every state that is listed on the so called international list of rogue nations and who practice or abet international terrorism has received technology and arms directly from China.

It's no secret that while the North Koreans and the Chinese have had political problems for centuries; they still share the same common emotions, heritage and histories that bought them together in the Korean War against the United States and that those sentiments yet simmer, even to the point of boiling over at times. Not to mention America's lingering Taiwan problem. Therefore it should be the Chinese and the North Koreans that we ought now to be dealing with directly and maybe taking a more diplomatic stance with the Iraqi. Because they both already have nuclear weapons

He goes to war because the American economy is in the worst shape that it has been in for decades. Joblessness is at a high that it has not seen in years. The entire stock exchange for the last few years has been in a free fall. Even with interest rates at lows that have not been seen for 30 years, the economy just can't seem to rebound.

The real hope and focus of this administration is that a war will help the economy get going. His new budget proposal earmarks billions of dollars for the war effort and the new war economy that will be created; while cutting almost all but entitled domestic spending programs. It will be the producers of war equipment and the merchants of energy that will benefit from any spoils that come from this new war economy.

We all know that the spoils will be oil. The rich will get richer and the poor will be forced to continue to take whatever it is that will happen to trickle down from the wealthy newly enriched Titans of the first imperialistic commercial venture of the 21 century. Mr. Bush goes to war not only because Iraq is the easiest of the Axis of evil states to invade, but also because Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world.

Now that we have our hands on the rich oil reserves in Afghanistan and with our hands on the fields in Iraq, not only will we have encircled Iran but we would have neutralized the oil producing Arab world. We will be able to literally control the world. It would then not matter what OPEC did with the rising and lowering of oil prices or what happens to the oil economies in Venezuela or Nigeria, because we would be major players as well.

He also goes to war out of a political revenge and personal vendetta, like his father, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney; he hates Saddem Hussein for disrupting the presidency and tarnishing the legacy of the first Bush political administration. He goes to war because the powers that be have sat back and been silent. They will speak only when the sons and daughters of America come home in body bags, but then it will be too late.