{"id":764,"date":"2007-05-29T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2012-01-28T00:52:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T00:52:58","slug":"achtergrond-de-eindeloze-oorlog-van-bush-en-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/2007\/05\/29\/achtergrond-de-eindeloze-oorlog-van-bush-en-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":">Achtergrond: De eindeloze oorlog van Bush en Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Irak, het verzet tegen de bezetting
M. Hassan & D. Pestieau<\/a><\/p>\n

Waarom viel de regering-Bush Irak aan? En voor wie? Lees het onderstaande artikel. In het Engels, dus gebruik zo nodig een vertaaltool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Bush-Cheney Regime and U.S. Middle East Policy: Radical Nihilists Driving Permanent War<\/span><\/p>\n

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by Ronald Bleier<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps the most useful question is still: Why did we go to war in the first place? As a springboard to my argument I\u2019d like to use a fairly conventional and economical statement of the reasons for the Iraq war by Ghali Hassan, writing for the Global Research website. In his article, \u201cIraq\u2019s Death Squads: An Instrument of the Occupation,\u201d he begins, as he says, by stating the obvious.<\/p>\n

The U.S. did not invade Iraq to establish \u201cdemocracy\u201d and to \u201cfree Iraqis\u201d. The U.S. invaded and destroyed Iraq in order to humiliate and divide Muslims \u2013 Arabs in particular \u2013 protect Israel\u2019s Zionist expansion and control Iraq\u2019s natural wealth.<\/p>\n

The contradiction between Israel\u2019s goals and bringing democracy to the Middle East was also mentioned by NYT op ed columnist Robert Wright. He asks<\/p>\n

What if the Iraqi people, once empowered by democracy, decided they didn\u2019t want their country to be a U.S. aircraft carrier? \u2026 After all, America is bound to use bases on behalf of itself and key allies, and one key ally is Israel. What were the chances this would sit well with an Arab Muslim nation\u2026<\/p>\n

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<\/span>We\u2019re in a better position now to answer the question: why did Bush and Cheney invade Iraq. They did it in pursuit of an endless war agenda. They used the terror events of 9\/11 as their rationale to go to war against Afghanistan. From there they braved the tough uphill slog in the face of prodigious popular opposition to get to Baghdad. From Baghdad they may have assumed it would be downhill to Teheran, which as Hillary, and Obama and Edwards have assured us, is not off the table.<\/p>\n

Lees verder op Wake Up From Your Slumber<\/a><\/p>\n