It is curious that with the exception of Haiti, the most corrupt government in the world today is holding sway in Iraq.  (Is this democracy Republican style?)

I don’t know the criteria used by the UN body making that determination, but it’s obvious that if we want the bulk of the revenue generated by Iraqi oil to come our way, we’d better have our people running the country.

I wait with bated breath the day Iraq’s oil is nationalized, in other words the day the Iraqi people get more than a 1% cut of its revenue - 1% being the usual amount a country’s people get when a foreign country has access to their natural resources.

I vote with the destabilization-as-policy thinkers.  One of the few good things to come out of this war will be a neo-cynics movement among Americans.  I’m sick of “think tanks.” Seems no idea has any credibility unless it emanates from a ****ing “think tank.” It turns out the only “think tank” policy makers needed to listen to through all this is the one embedded within the thinking population of the USA and the rest of the thinking world; they were right all along.  Imagine, a bunch of grown men (women probably can’t think) sitting around thinking and talking about thinking and calling themselves thinkers and getting paid—big—to think.  And screwing up.  And then, flip-flopping.  “Do you think we’ve thought enough, for now?”  “Hmmm, yeah, I think so. Ya hungry?” “Yeah.”  “I think we should go eat.  Waddayou think?” “Yeah, let’s gweet.”  We should all have one of those jobs, I think.

Re #70629 by felicity on 5/17 at 1:24 pm

Hmm…there is a case to be made for chaos being created and maintained in the Middle-East.  That could very well work for the Corporatists.  It would certainly “justify”, in many minds, the maintenance of military bases indefinitely.  It’s a very cynical view, thus adding to it’s credibility.

So everything’s actually tickity-boo is it felicity?

That sure is reassuring.

There are those in-the-know on Iraq, past and present (and not working for this government) who believe that there are two Iraq policies - one presented in front of the cameras and one operating behind them.

They suggest that what has transpired in Iraq is exactly what the architects of the invasion and occupation planned - to break up the country into manageable entities.  Oil, Middle East dominance by the West, less threat to Israel among the reasons.

We can only hope that the other nations of the Middle East realize this.

Too late ! Sluggish buffalo will always drink dirty water !

And we have one and one person only to thank for this imbroglio: King George W. Bush, a pathetic and miserable example of American Presidential leadership if there ever was one.

Kiss Iraq and American democracy goodbye…