This war is NOT about oil. - Democratic Underground

DulceDecorum

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Sat Aug-14-04 07:55 PM
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This war is NOT about oil.

First of all, there is hardly any oil left in Iraq.
During the first Gulf War, the US destroyed so many oil installations that the sea became one big oil slick.

About 8,000,000 million barrels of crude oil was purposely spilled into the Persian Gulf, creating an environmental hazard to marine life and birds. Approximately 20,000 birds died. A 12-inch thick oil slick was created and covered an esimated 400 miles of shoreline. Only a very small portion of the oil was recovered, about a million barrels of oil. The oil slick threatened the desalinization plant at Jubayl, Saudia Arabia. Booms and skimming operations were launched to protect the plant.
http://www.uwec.edu/grossmzc/sniderll.html

The US military then unleashed the oil-eating bacteria developed and patented by one Ananda Chakrabarty.
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/1125 /

As a result of all this,
Iraq is IMPORTING OIL via Halliburton
and then are pumping the crude INTO Iraqi oilwells.
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2005
So it is plain to see that this war is NOT about oil.

So what is this war all about?
WHY is Bush DETERMINED to continue the assault on Iraq?
WHY is Bush DETERMINED to wage war against Iran?
And where do the neocons and the Kuwaitis fit in?
Saddam has been deposed.
There never were any Weapons of Mass Destruction.
This war is not about Saddam Hussein.
Or his quarrel with Kuwait.

The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are obtained -- by torturing children while their parents are made to watch. International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.)
And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq: Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from power will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

1 Who is this coming from Edom,
from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson?
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?
"It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save."
2 Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?
3 "I have trodden the winepress alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;
their blood spattered my garments,
and I stained all my clothing.
4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and the year of my redemption has come.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm worked salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.
6 I trampled the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk
and poured their blood on the ground."
-- Isaiah 63: 1-6
http://www.moshiach.com/discover/articles/saddam.php

In simple terms, we are at war. It is not a struggle merely for power, wealth, or some other material advantage; it is a titanic clash over the future of world civilization. The world must now choose, for all time, between the eternal holiness of the Messianic kingdom—for which Jews have tirelessly worked for thousands of years—and the utter nihilism of the darkest evil ever to threaten the planet. This war has already spread into every nation, every social institution, every human activity. It has thus become a world war in the ultimate sense.
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Meanwhile, the world is tumbling into chaos, confused and frightened by the largest, most daring web of lies in history. Until we choose to exercise our incredible potential for Divinely-assured victory, we can expect to see the following developments unfold (H"V): ...........
16) An escalation of terrorism within the borders of the United States, along with debt-fueled inflationary economic crisis and urban riots; a general breakdown of law and order, followed by police state measures that will deliberately fail to restore order; rising confusion and panic amongst the population, with no one being able to identify the cause.
17) The outbreak of a world war, spreading throughout every continent on the globe, but culminating in an all-out invasion of Israel by Communist armies from the Soviet Bloc, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and perhaps China.
On the other hand, none of the above scenarios need happen at all. It is not a strategy based on force or strength, but rather on weakness and parasitic helplessness hidden behind a wall of lies and illusions.
http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm

So here we have a major political constituency - representing much of the current president's core vote - in the most powerful nation on Earth, which is actively seeking to provoke a new world war. Its members see the invasion of Iraq as a warm-up act, as Revelation (9:14-15) maintains that four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates" will be released "to slay the third part of men". They batter down the doors of the White House as soon as its support for Israel wavers: when Bush asked Ariel Sharon to pull his tanks out of Jenin in 2002, he received 100,000 angry emails from Christian fundamentalists, and never mentioned the matter again.
The electoral calculation, crazy as it appears, works like this. Governments stand or fall on domestic issues. For 85% of the US electorate, the Middle East is a foreign issue, and therefore of secondary interest when they enter the polling booth. For 15% of the electorate, the Middle East is not just a domestic matter, it's a personal one: if the president fails to start a conflagration there, his core voters don't get to sit at the right hand of God. Bush, in other words, stands to lose fewer votes by encouraging Israeli aggression than he stands to lose by restraining it. He would be mad to listen to these people. He would also be mad not to.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1195568,00.html

The immediate results of this war will be disastrous: Moshiach ben Yossef (Bush, the GOP messiah) will be killed. This is described in the prophecy of Zechariah, who says of this tragedy that “they shall mourn him as one mourns for an only child.” (Zechariah 12:10). His death will be followed by a period of great calamities. (under Halliburton/Cheney?) These new tribulations shall be the final test for Israel, and shortly thereafter Moshiach ben David shall come, avenge his death, resurrect him, (Bush, the GOP messiah) and inaugurate the Messianic era of everlasting peace and bliss. (Which apparently consists of a government of the GOP, by the GOP, and for the GOP.)
http://moshiach.com/discover/tutorials/moshiach_ben_yossef.php

And you guys are worrying about Diebold fixing a four-year election.