Crisis in Iraq War

Crisis in Iraq War Campaign, Peak Oil & Lardass Nation

The liberal turkey herd, the frog marching cronies of capital, and the slide into world chaos

“Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”

- President John F. Kennedy, remarks in Bonn, West Germany,
Establishing the German Peace Corps, June 24, 1963,
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 503

“The president may be the only one running an oil company that’s not making money this year.”

- Senator Joseph Biden, (D – Delaware)
Foreign Relations Committee, November 21, 2005,
Addressing the New York Council on Foreign Relations

The author of the important book The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler, wrote recently after Democratic Congressman Murtha’s call for a “redeployment to the periphery” from U. S. military campaigns in Iraq that:

“Unless an anti-war opposition has a plan to withdraw from the project of suburban sprawl, we're going to have to keep soldiers in Iraq, if not in the cities, then out in desert bases guarding the oil works and keeping planes ready to fly in case some al-Zarqawi-type maniac mounts a coup in Saudi Arabia. It would certainly be legitimate for the Democratic Party to oppose the idea that we can continue to be crippled by car-dependency, or that we ought to keep subsidizing that way of life -- which Vice-president Cheney called ‘non-negotiable.’”

- "Stay or Go?", November 21, 2005

And that is what Congressman Murtha and many other government officials mean in using the word “redeployment” rather than the popular anti – war slogan of “bring them home, now.” Kunstler correctly describes the damned if you do and damned if you don’t situation the American life – style is facing ahead.

The “redeployment” of troops from Iraq is a damn sight short from a constitutional standing army guarding our borders from invasion and preventing armed insurrection from within. Mr. Murtha knows that and so do most who play such political word games.

“Redeployment” to Turkey, Jordan, Israel or Afghanistan is a pretty poor substitute for a glorious crusade victoriously liberating the Iraqis with democracy.

None, including many leaders in the left, is going to be of any help to “consumers” in creative thinking, to what Cheney, Bush, Big Energy (and quietly most wealthy Democrats} know as – endless petroleum wars for our lifetime and our children’s lifetime.

The preferred weapon of cops in the infamous sixties was clubbing protesters; today it is clubbing dissenters with their own plastic pocket books, computer tracking debt collectors, omniscient electronic surveillance and the mind dumbing distractions of electronic entertainment.

There are too many obliging city councils and state governments in this country, who outlaw dissent in this country through designated protest zones, abusive violation of privacies and zoning laws.

Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and many of the leaders of the Democratic Party prefer the clubbing of voters with their “realistic” national security interests; rather than any visionary historic FDR scale nationwide mobilizations leading us away from petroleum in order to secure and maintain our national sovereignty.

NO CONSPIRACY HERE, JUST CHASING THE FAST BUCK!
There is just too much money to make to be honest with those of us below, there is just enough time as peak oil descends for them to “get their due” in pillage and slavery, but not enough to re – tool the whole petroleum based auto industry, the food production agricultural industries, the sprawled out cities, or close our open borders from an invading army of cheap labor, or horror or horrors; nationalize key corporations involved in their Big Energy con games.

Multinational corporations have more civil liberties now in America than any inner city Muslim-flipping fast food hamburgers made and mixed from some distant 1000 head herd of corn – fed cattle stuffed into a cramped feedlot.

The mass hallucinations of what Kunstler describes as a “consensus trance” has lead the highest and the lowest in the food chain economy to overlook the deprivations of even the most basic human rights.

The super wealthy know what’s about to come down in less than twenty or so years, and they aren’t going to spell it out for those stupid ones fixated with the common distractions of Paris Hilton, mega – sport events, or mind numbing employment.

The wealthy prefer an aging population of morbidly obese voters shuffling into the church basements to cast their electoral arrows against all those grandchildren getting abortions and coming out gay. The wealthy sow those immorality seeds deceitfully among the aging relics who seem incapable of understanding the miserable future they are leaving their kids.

Their dreams realized patrolled with heavily armed private police forces as they cruise in electric golf carts guarding gated communities of multi - million dollar mansions, and are not into sharing their disposable incomes, with anyone other than the nannies, servants, mechanics and gardeners who service the kids, land and the cars.

Oh yes, there will be cars around, and gasoline at such exorbitant prices that only the most elite will be able to afford it.

The wealthy elites of both political parties prefer a dumb population of illiterate slum dwellers working for food, televisions and cheap drugs; satiated on the table scraps of imperialism while conning the nation’s high school kids for years to come into high tech terminator desert camouflage, basketball, fast food courts and a Ft. Apache existence in a sand blown 21st century red, white and blue version of a Roman garrison.

Service in the new armies for petroleum will be a perquisite for the moiling workers’ children.

Kunstler’s sarcastic writing style is preferable to these greedy moronic maniacs’ holding vision quest seminars on human herd management at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heritage Foundation, or the World Bank.

“Humor is the best weapon,” as the motto on our magazine flag reads and writers like Kunstler are the coming of age, again of satire and snickering anti – war commentary that we need.

And meanwhile, Cheney speaks at the obsolete and elitist American Enterprise Institute to repeat the tired mantra of the conservative psychology cult of “staying the course” in Iraq. The phony “anti – war” Sen. Joe Biden yaks at the Council of Foreign Relations lunch club about failed oil wars.

Despite indictments, investigations, massive citizen calls for impeachment and other political diversions, the popular oppositional delusions of the oppressed, as the U. S. oil empire implodes, the anti – war folks avoids the most obvious remedy to this madness.

Boycott and starve the mongers by falling off their “power – grid.”

Forget the mass demonstrations requiring hundreds of buses, train tickets and forget about mass armed insurrection – this place is going to fall on it’s on, much like the Soviet Union did, without any “faulty intelligence” from the big bad spy agencies.

Former CIA Director George Tenet’s “slam dunk” on WMD intelligence got him one more year on the government tit after Dubyah got in – who cared about a few hundred thousand dead Iraqis. It was reported by Ron Suskind in his book; The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill, Simon & Schuster, 2004, p. 70 - 72 that Tenet, Bush and his first cabinet met ten days after the first inauguration, January 30, 2001 to discuss taking out Saddam Hussein by military action. Saddam selling underpriced oil to Jordan and Syria was one of the many talking points discussed to justify invasion.

The oil wars began over Iraq well before 911 and most of Cheney's secretive energy task force meeting that same year were already discussing the peak oil production catastrophe. Fast forward to today's post - Katrina disaster on the oil wells off the Gulf coast and it leaves little doubt that the country is on the verge of an economic disaster over energy.

Kunstler is more honest and to the point about the opposition to the military occupation in Iraq. He describes the acute predicament of the anti – war opposition to readers while Cheney wooing to the obstinate and selfish older generation dying out, groveling to the “pro – life” voters by speaking in terms of a misty never land of John Wayne hubris, a frontier logic of the futile and ridiculous sick fantasy of a conquering white race over the savage indigenous warrior cults of the primitives.

Also on this same day, the monster of SUV factories, General Motors announces the termination of 30,000 autoworkers and the permanent closure of several factories as the manufacturing industrial base of the country collapses after decades of fossil fuel centered mythmaking. Delphi, another gasoline centered leader, made their contribution to the walkabout World Depression with an additional 30,000 layoffs just last month.

The nation’s industrial managers are sliding its workers and all the generations to come into a future life – style more akin to the hurricane-ravaged tent – dwellers scavenging amidst the vast garbage dumps around the devastated cities and villages along the Gulf of Mexico’s coast.

It will be rough everywhere, if these imperialists have their way until a few billion people die prematurely from mass starvation, genocide and climate exposure.

Cheney’s non – negotiable fantasy fest with his geriatric minions of “pro – life” Jugger – Mart shoppers and low wage conservatives relies on several generations of MTV video game programmed red neck tech – warriors terminating bloodthirsty natives from weapon platforms the outsourced contractors build for them.

Grandpa Vee Pee Dickee along with tens of thousands in their gated mansions are preparing their own energy independent life –styles while hundreds of millions face disease, genocidal war technologies, poverty and starvation.

And if you think as the mafia dons used to say about “this thing we got going on” over in Iraq is something unusual try this hat on for a fit, killing leaders with coups, staged insurrections or development bank loans:

“It was giving loans to other countries, huge loans, much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of the loan—let’s say a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or Ecuador—and this country would
then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a U.S. company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructure—a Halliburton or a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn’t possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can’t do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, “Look, you’re not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil.” And today we’re going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they’ve accumulated all this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It’s an empire. There’s no two ways about it. It’s a huge empire. It’s been extremely successful.”

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But not for long, pardners!