The USA in Iraq Indefinitely
The Bush Administration is a grab bag of conflicted words and statements. First, the US was to depose the government of Saddam then leave; now the US is to stay in Iraq indefinitely. What happened to the first promise? It went the way of those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
The US changes its mind as often as it changed its rationales for invasion and occupation of the small country of Iraq. The Bush government said that the US was in Iraq for a thousand different reasons, then that it would be out ASAP and give the government back to the people. All of these things seem loftier than this government or its bureaucrats are.
There are only two reasons that make Bush-Texas-style-sense for taking American military power into Iraq: to settle an old score with Saddam that occurred with his father, and because there is oil in that country. And now that the first reason has been partially accomplished, the second one has ascended to the forefront, although it was never listed as one of the reasons for invading that nation.
The USA under George Bush is a conflicted and confused nation that says one thing and does two other things. One question of this confused government: If we are as powerful as we are telling ourselves and the world, "Why, with all the US military might, can we not seemingly catch the rogue leaders, ala, bin Ladin and Saddam?"
This nation needs a villain to fight. It is the slavery mentality that
still is in American leadership. And since we need a villain, we will
not capture our created rogues because to capture them would render ourselves
without a cause, without a villain; we need that perpetual villain, and
when there is no villain, we create them. []
Simond Griote
