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[Parisle]

---- George Bush certainly equates the War on Iraq with the "War on Terror," eh? But the list of extenuating circumstances to Bush's vision is a yard long.

---- For one thing, Bush needed to attack a nation state in order to get Americans to believe they were actually in a war,.. and the PNAC had long wanted to grab Iraq's oil as a resource and means of further military adventurism throughout the world. Fighter jets don't run on bio-diesel, eh? Some PNAC documents have explicitly stated that a secure source of oil is a prerequisite for the "multiple wars" they wish to wage in order to make this the "American Century." And besides, the "War on Terror" is a semantic trick, anyway,..... there is no such thing. "Terrorism" is the term which has been gratuitously applied to the means by which ragged, underdeveloped peoples try to resist US imperialism and economic domination.

---- The division of the two terms was made in the mind of the American public. For many, warring against terrorism meant getting bin Laden, author of 9-11,... and that hasn't happened yet,... doesn't even seem to be a priority any longer. And most Americans are smart enough to dedeuce that invading Iraq did not put us any closer to catching him. That is where the two wars diverged. There should be no mistake about this -- the LAST thing the Bush administration wants to see is the end of whatever they may deem a "terror threat." It is their meal ticket.

---- Invading and occupying Iraq, on the other hand, served numerous purposes not connected to the deposing of Hussein. It averted a minor catastrophe of the US currency, as Saddam was about to switch to the Euro for oil transactions. OPEC could have followed suit. Iraq is no longer a member of OPEC,... how 'bout that? And by having a war in Iraq which lasts for decades, a US military base in the Mideast is assured. And Iraqi oil is cheap to extract; it lies shallow in the ground,... and requires only a third of the extraction costs in Saudi Arabia. There's extra profit in those numbers, right? US oil companies wanted Iraq above all. The "War on Terror" was the fabricated cover under which the PNAC-corporatist partnership decided to make the grab.