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pritchke · 03-26-2003, 03:21 PM

Washington's strategy reveals U.S. motives and plans for Iraq's future
by ARTHUR KENT

The UN failed to act against Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad, U.S. leaders charged, but America wouldn't. It's a clear, simple statement, but like most doctrinal contentions it's essentially misleading: the UN, in fact, failed only to act within a time frame dictated by the Bush administration. A majority of nations on the Security Council resisted the American agenda -- and made the President's day. "The Bush administration wanted war from the start," says Steven Livingston, senior research fellow at the University of Washington's Center for American Politics and Public Policy. "This is now just a political culture on steroids.

While the President talks of humanitarian assistance, specialists in strategic studies say Washington's plans for rebuilding Iraq are based on far more practical and self-serving objectives. Paul Rogers, a professor in the department of peace studies at Britain's University of Bradford, told Maclean's: "The bottom line essentially is that this is not about short-term profit from oil reserves, but long-term control of what is really the world's absolute key energy source. The Gulf is now so important that it would be simply unacceptable to the kind of people controlling the Bush administration not to have control of the area."

Full Article:
http://www.macleans.ca/xta-doc2/2003...er/57443.shtml
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Could still be about oil yet. No wonder starting the war just does not seem right.

03-26-2003, 03:21 PM	#1
pritchke Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess Join Date: September 5, 2001 Location: Calgary, AB Age: 50 Posts: 3,491	Washington's strategy reveals U.S. motives and plans for Iraq's future by ARTHUR KENT The UN failed to act against Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad, U.S. leaders charged, but America wouldn't. It's a clear, simple statement, but like most doctrinal contentions it's essentially misleading: the UN, in fact, failed only to act within a time frame dictated by the Bush administration. A majority of nations on the Security Council resisted the American agenda -- and made the President's day. "The Bush administration wanted war from the start," says Steven Livingston, senior research fellow at the University of Washington's Center for American Politics and Public Policy. "This is now just a political culture on steroids. While the President talks of humanitarian assistance, specialists in strategic studies say Washington's plans for rebuilding Iraq are based on far more practical and self-serving objectives. Paul Rogers, a professor in the department of peace studies at Britain's University of Bradford, told Maclean's: "The bottom line essentially is that this is not about short-term profit from oil reserves, but long-term control of what is really the world's absolute key energy source. The Gulf is now so important that it would be simply unacceptable to the kind of people controlling the Bush administration not to have control of the area." Full Article: http://www.macleans.ca/xta-doc2/2003...er/57443.shtml -------------------------------------------------- Could still be about oil yet. No wonder starting the war just does not seem right.