Greed for Oil Drives the Hunger for War
Published in The Universe
(October 06, 2002)
NEVER has a war been threatened on such a flimsy pretext or unconfirmed evidence as we have heard lately from the dossier of devilishness that is supposed to solicit our approval for a rain of death on men and women and children in Iraq.
The American people will support military action if it is supported by the United Nations – not just by George W. Bush. The UN can give a legitimate and clearly necessary response to a grave and deadly threat to world peace and the well being of member nations.
But that has yet to be seen. Saddam Hussein has now agreed to meet all the criteria for the demands of the UN resolutions to inspect and destroy any weapons of mass destruction. That will be a better way to remove these threats – if they really exist – than an all-out war that will cost billions of dollars better spent on food for a starving world.
There is no justifiable excuse to invade other than that ever-compelling motivation of human nature – power and domination. This is what the lure of oil does. It poisons the soul and blinds the heart. It drives political masters to send their soldiers into battle for personal and corporate gain. If this happens we will soon see the torn limbs and shattered bodies of children and women, the inevitable “collateral damage”, lamented as an unfortunate but unavoidable result of war.
The war in Afghanistan has yielded a bonanza of natural gas to the mighty US oil and gas corporation Unical. Within weeks of the invasion and the securing of the northern provinces and borders with Turkmenistan the long-planned gas pipeline deal was signed in Kabul. The bodies of the Taliban victims of atrocities by American mercenaries had not yet decayed but billions of dollars of profits were in the bag for the US conglomerates, many of whom had contributed massive funds to the election of their puppet George W. Bush.
The investigation of the threats to American civilians by operatives of Osama Bin Laden was practically put on hold even in the light of knowledge of a clear and present danger from hijacked planes. Amazingly no one in the Bush administration wanted to disturb the delicate negotiations between the oil tycoons behind the Bush administration and the Taliban.
Yes they were sending representatives to Huston to discuss the gas pipeline deal with Unical. Some high US officials have claimed that arrests of the suspects would have turned the Taliban away from a deal to sign over the gas pipelines to the best friends and backers of George. W. Bush
Now the warlike congressmen are warning the Germans that they will get no share of the oil business in Iraq if they do not support the invasion. Comments like that and the clear greed of the US and British oil companies to get into those oil fields is in the opinion of many the reasons for the desire to wage war.
The possession of deadly weapons of mass destruction is the weapons of mass destruction is the pretext. Saddam has had them for over nine years and the policy of containment and control was effective.
