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US
military dictatorship in Iraq?
Regime
change in Washington?
PressInfo #
163
October
15, 2002
By
Jan Oberg, TFF director
U.S. foreign policy seems to be moving beyond the
realm of political science textbooks. Washington today
means ever more bellicose groupthink.
It's the theatre of the absurd. Statements without shared
meanings are uttered from a moral void.
With the spiralling integration of paranoia and
megalomania, one must rather turn to textbooks of
psychology for interpretation.
We are living in increasingly dangerous times.
How shall we react, intellectually and emotionally?
How, for instance, shall we react to a surreal news bite
like this?
"The US has plans to establish an American-led
military administration in Iraq, similar to the postwar
occupation of Germany and Japan, which could last for
several years after the fall of Saddam Hussein... Saddam
would be replaced by US General Tommy Franks..."
No, it is not fiction. Read the story here:
New York Times, October 10, 2002
U.S.
has a Plan to Occupy Iraq, Officials Report
The Guardian, October 12, 2002
US
plans military rule and occupation of Iraq:
Saddam
would be replaced by General Tommy Franks
"The Iraqi project, outlined by Mr Bush's senior
adviser on the Middle East, Zalmay Khalilzad, would
involve running the entire country until a democratic
Iraqi government was deemed ready," writes the
Guardian.
Who is Zalmay Khalilzad? Not surprisingly, he
is from the oil industry, former adviser to Unocal and
the link to the Afghan oil connection. He is a
neo-conservative, close to Wolfowitz, No. 2 man at
Pentagon. Read more about Khalilzad here:
Slate,
Bush' favorite Afghan
TruthOut,
Zalmay Khalilzad and the Bush Agenda
Watching and listening to George W. Bush and other
leaders, one wonders whether they understand the
responsibilities of the overwhelming power that is now
concentrated in their hands?
Are they fully aware of how careful, how humble, they
must be when handling the American potentials for death
and destruction?
I feel they are not. What do you feel?
War against Iraq and its people as well as a US
military dictatorship aiming to control Iraq's oil is
inhuman and illegal. It is an absurdity coming out of a
groupthink that has lost contact with the rest of
humanity.
Friends of the United States must begin to say this
aloud. It will no longer do to just shake our heads
despairingly or keep quiet in fear.
For every new cataclysmic step, plan and doctrine, we
must protest but also help Americans to find peace and
harmony together with the rest of us.
They used to say that what is good for the United
States is good for the world. I think this now applies to
peaceful regime change and democratisation in
Washington.
October 15, 2002
© TFF 2002
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