DRANT #207: UPDATE: THE BUSH VICTORY IN IRAQ

After DRANT #206 was sent, the mail brought some terrific stuff, (available below) which provide brilliant and essential new insight and precise facts- I urge you to read them in their entirety. Links are provided.
Excerpts from DRANT (#206)--
"...Bush may be a dummy, but the people who run him are not, and their global aims are best served by disorder, destabilization, and conflict, locally and globally...Chaos and disorder are not the unintended negative byproducts of stupidity, but rather are the desired results of a well-conceived and long standing plan-- to serve not the best interests of the world, humanity or even the USA, but to fulfill a limitless greed for power, money and domination.
Every "stupid" move the dummies have made has not only been brilliantly designed, but - to this point, extraordinarily successful..."
"Who gains ?" The USA and Israel gain. The Carlyle Group and Halliburton and Bechtel and the other members of the rapacious herd of American arms manufacturers and dealers reallllly gain. They create chaos, disorder, enmity, breakdown, thus justifying the arming and installation of still more nations, and their occupying troops and "contractors" -- further to impose their odious control and fatten their hideously bulging wallets.
None of this is by mistake...The USA plan is and has always been precisely to sow and proliferate and cause and finance and impose and ARM chaos, disorder, mutual annihilation, internecine "civil" warfare, the collapse of infrastructure and the very breakdown of society...The politicians cry beloved country, and claim to act for the security of the "Homeland" and "American Values" and "Democracy" -- but really folks, its all about BUSINESS."
"...It would seem that US policy regarding Iraq, Iran and Saddam was consistent only in its self-contradictory inconsistency and illogic.
But -- that's only if one assumes that the US Government works on behalf of We (the group formerly known as) The People.
Once you realize that the US Government has actually been working for Big Oil and the Global corporations, everything they did makes sense."

"Paul Bremer was sent to Iraq to create chaos and destabilize what remained of Iraq. Once in power, he created an environment where the oil could be pumped with no accountability, oversight or basic record keeping, and where staggering piles of cash (over $12 billion) flew all over the country without the most rudimentary accounting controls.
"...All of this subverted the most fundamental elements of the interests of the USA, escalating the casualty rate to quadruple the previous, greatly energized the insurgency, and serving the interests only of the global corporations trafficking in oil, arms, and the so-called reconstruction of Iraq: KBR (Halliburton), Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Blackwater Security, G.E. and myriad others including poppa Bush's Carlyle Group of course.
"... Many American businesses may have bitten the dust in the years since Desert Storm, but the arms business has metastasized to DOUBLE what it was in 1990. By sowing global destabilization, the American arms industry has now grown to comprise approximately twenty percent of the entire annual national budget.
The price of gas at the pump has nearly doubled, from $1.75 to approximately $3.00 since 2001.
The profits of the major oil companies have exploded exponentially, to the point where Exxon posted the largest corporate quarterly profit in history.
The value of Halliburton's shares have more than tripled since the invasion, in obscene but clear proportion to the numbers of Iraqi and American casualties, the more death, the more profit. Cheney's personal Halliburton portfolio has appreciated- get this-- three THOUSAND percent.
And let's be sure and include alla US GUYS. The Dow has set new records, and investors are celebrating. The stock market businesses, traders, funds, etc. and their clients - -- (does this mean you Bunky ?) are raking in stupifying profits. Goldman Sachs made (no kidding) 93 million dollars in PROFIT in the last quarter, for a total of 14 BILLION dollars pre tax PROFIT in 2006.
Forgive me, but I see no bungling here. No stupidity.
Nor do I see a drop of idiocy or mishandling in the capture, trial or lynching of Saddam Hussein.
"...A final footnote: Yesterday, the Iraqi (sic) Government announced a new law whereby Iraq's Oil reserves will be handed to foreign oil corporations, primarily Exxon, BP, Shell, Chevron, on terms that are profoundly unfair to the people of Iraq, and (no surprise here) grossly favorable to Big Oil.
I just thought you might wanna know.
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1.
New Oil Law Means Victory in Iraq for Bush
By Chris Floyd t r u t h o u t | UK Correspondent
Monday 08 January 2007

"...Iraq not only has the world's second largest oil reserves; it also has the world's most easily retrievable oil. As the Independent succinctly notes: "The cost-per-barrel of extracting oil in Iraq is among the lowest in the world because the reserves are relatively close to the surface. This contrasts starkly with the expensive and risky lengths to which the oil industry must go to find new reserves elsewhere - witness the super-deep offshore drilling and cost-intensive techniques needed to extract oil form Canada's tar sands."

This is precisely what Cheney was getting at in his 1999 talk to the Institute of Petroleum. In a world of dwindling petroleum resources, those who control large reserves of cheaply-produced oil will reap unimaginable profits - and command the heights of the global economy. It's not just about profit, of course; control of such resources would offer tremendous strategic advantages to anyone who was interested in "full spectrum domination" of world affairs, which the Bush-Cheney faction and their outriders among the neo-cons and the "national greatness" fanatics have openly sought for years. With its twin engines of corporate greed and military empire, the war in Iraq is a marriage made in Valhalla."

"...And this unholy union is what Bush is really talking about when he talks about "victory." This is the reason for so much of the drift and dithering and chaos and incompetence of the occupation: Bush and his cohorts don't really care what happens on the ground in Iraq - they care about what comes out of the ground. The end - profit and dominion - justifies any means. What happens to the human beings caught up in the war is of no ultimate importance; the game is worth any number of broken candles.

And in plain point of fact, the Bush-Cheney faction - and the elite interests they represent - has already won the war in Iraq. I've touched on this theme before elsewhere, but it is a reality of the war that is very often overlooked, and is worth examining again. This ultimate victory was clear as long ago as June 2004, when I first set down the original version of some of the updated observations below.

Put simply, the Bush Family and their allies and cronies represent the confluence of three long-established power factions in the American elite: oil, arms and investments. These groups equate their own interests, their own wealth and privilege, with the interests of the nation - indeed, the world - as a whole. And they pursue these interests with every weapon at their command, including war, torture, deceit and corruption. Democracy means nothing to them - not even in their own country, as we saw in the 2000 election. Laws are just whips to keep the common herd in line; they don't apply to the elite, as Bush's own lawyers and minions have openly asserted in the memos, signing statements, court cases and presidential decrees asserting the "inherent power" of the "unitary executive" to override any law he pleases.

The Iraq war has been immensely profitable for these Bush-linked power factions (and their tributary industries, such as construction); billions of dollars in public money have already poured into their coffers. Halliburton has been catapulted from the edge of bankruptcy to the heights of no-bid, open-ended, guaranteed profit. The Carlyle Group is gorging on war contracts. Individual Bush family members are making out like bandits from war-related investments, while dozens of Bush minions - like Richard Perle, James Woolsey, and Joe Allbaugh - have cashed in their insider chips for blood money."

2.
U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 1998-2005 -
[pdf format]

3.
Paper: 'Blood and oil; How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches'
Ron Brynaert
Published: Sunday January 7, 2007


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"...Ultimately, the ease with which Western academics casually decide to reshape the countries of their choice owes itself to the continuing legacy of Orientalism. In classic nineteenth century style, the chattering classes suggest that Iraq, despite its five thousand-year history, is now incapable of managing itself, and so its fate must be decided by outside powers...To bolster their case, the myth of ancient sectarian hatreds, a staple of the 'humanitarian intervention’ crowd, is rehashed and fed on a daily basis by journalists who neither question the authorship of "sectarian" attacks nor report the view of ordinary Iraqis, who blame the Occupation army and its puppet government for the orchestrated chaos..."
David Montoute
The Strategy of Disintegration: False flags, dirty tricks and the dismemberment of Iraq
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2006/12/strategy-of-disintegration-false-flags.html
December 22, 2006