Um… put me right someone
Let me see if I've got this right.
First America (and us of course), disguised as the UN, force Iraq to
disarm or otherwise give up its missiles and major weapons, after
we've spent years shooting up their defences.
Then we go and bomb the hell out of them.
Then we allow looting and destruction of all sorts to take place.
Now we want to have the sanctions on Iraq lifted so that Iraq oil
can be sold to generate money to pay for the damage we've done.
And the people who'll be paid to repair that damage are predominantly
US (with a smattering of UK, maybe) companies.
Have I got that right?
Um… something strikes me as being a bit wrong there somewhere.
Bringing it down to a level I can understand… its like some guy
coming along and, cos he's bigger and stronger than me, barging into
my home and forcing me to remove all my door locks and stuff.
Then he comes back later and beats me up.
Then he starts wrecking the stuff in my house, and inviting other
people in to come and do some wrecking as well – and what they
don't trash they steal.
Then he offers to repair the damage, and happens to mention that just
by chance he's got some mates who'll do it for me… at a price.
And the whole point being that I'm expected to foot the bill.
Is that the size of it?
Please someone, tell me I've got it wrong, and explain to me what's actually going on.
And while we're on this sort of subject, here's another thing that's struck me.
At the start this was all about Iraq being in breach of Security Council
Resolutions, and then about weapons of mass destruction.
Right?
So we go into Iraq, topple the regime, and would get rid of the WMD… if only we could find them.
Saddam's regime's gone, right?
And the Iraqi people themselves were actually the innocent victims of Saddam, right?
And they're going to have to rebuild the country, right?
And they're eventually going to need some sort of token military, right (if only to protect themselves from a future Saddam)?
So how's that military going to be equipped? Because "Coalition" forces have been going around destroying all the armaments – not weapons of mass destruction but conventional armaments be it noted – even after the Saddam regime had been effectively displaced.
So what gives?
I suppose at some point Western arms dealers will be toddling off to Iraq to re-equip the new military under the new (undoubtedly Western-approved) regime. At a price, of course.
Great ploy, isn't it. Sell a load of stuff to someone. Then find some pretext to go and destroy it all. Then sell them some more.
Or is that something else I've got wrong as well?
A rather confused Mike.
