US invades to bolster its own economy

examiner.ie 30/04/03

THE US claimed that their war on Iraq was done to bring democracy to the people of Iraq. Now they say that they do not want (read ‘will not allow’) a fundamentalist Shi’ite regime in Iraq. So much for their promise of a free democratic Iraq, as the US rejects and arrests various representatives of the Iraqi people.

The US has a history of meddling in other states’ affairs for their own self-interest, and of setting up puppet regimes headed by infamous dictators: Pinochet in Chile, Suharto in Indonesia, Maurice Bishop in Grenada and Saddam himself. When these dictators get fed up with US interference and revolt, the US then turns on them and puts them down. Their latest effort in 2001 at doing the same in Venezuela (another oil rich state) was thankfully thwarted by the people of Venezuela, but only just.

US foreign policy and warmongering is based solely on economic self-interest. As they seek to dominate world markets and as they boycott French goods, so should we, fellow EU members, play the US at their own game and boycott US goods.

Kevin T Finn, King’s Square, Mitchelstown,