It is not just "Big Oil" that the Bush Administration and its Neo-Con ideologist members are continuing to bathe in money on their way out of office. No, the Military Industrial Complex is reaping the rewards with an even bigger return on investment from that sick and twisted ideology that they employ.
Real war brought about by lies and deception (Iraq). Contrived war brought about by scary Muslims that MIGHT someday have the capacity to create a nuclear warhead (Iran). Straight up posing for war with a country that they supposedly "defeated" in the 1990’s, formerly known as the Soviet Union (Russia). All of this for what reason(s)? Why, for profit, of course! It is a Republican administration after all.
We all know that Bush’s war in Iraq is not producing the required results that the Neo-Cons had intended. They will not be the "Keepers of the Oil" in Iraq. The Iraqi’s are standing up and throwing their asses out.
We all also know quite well that whatever plans Neo-Cons put into motion never do produce the exact results that they intended, yet we also realize that they are fast on their feet when it comes to taking one failure that they have greatly profited from and creating another scenario that is doomed to failure, but that they can profit from in the meantime. The results are secondary. It is the PERSONAL PROFIT that consumes them. Here is a line from a song by the band Queensryche (Revolution) while discussing the US Government, "gotta make a million, doesn’t matter who dies." Yep! That’s our Neo-Cons. Only the song is dated. The amount is at least a billion now.
You see, the Soviet Union imploded in the 90’s due to the inability to keep up economically with the United States in a technological battle with the United States over new and more deadly weapons and as a result the United States was left as the only military Super Power nation remaining on the lovely Planet Earth. Game, Set, Match right? Well, not really.
What really happened is that while the Neo-Cons puffed up their chests and called Ronald Reagan the savior of all that came before and might ever come again, the real reason the Soviet Union fell is that they simply could not continue to spend the money needed to keep up with the US militarily. They were beyond broke and their nasty attitudes in the World Opinion had left them without many friends who would back them any longer. They finally just laid down their nukes and said "I give."
Fast forward to the year 2000, my friends. It didn’t take long for the now re-named Russia to figure out that this capitalist stuff was pretty sweet! For that matter, the un-named giant in the room, China, was figuring that out pretty well for themselves. No, you didn’t have to share with the people of your country from all this capitalist stuff, well not many of them anyway. You just had to take advantage of anyone, anything, everyone and everything you came into contact with in order to make a bigger profit. Not to mention, all of a sudden, the new Russia came to grips with the fact that they had something that they could exploit like crazy! They had natural gas and oil reserves out the ying yang! All they had to do was stop spending money on machinery to cause the deaths of others and start spending that money on infrastructure that would not only allow them to put their people back to work and create a better environment for their citizens, but also bring in the record profits like never before! Hey, these guys were on to something here.
That was when the tables turned 180 degrees and while the Russians learned from their past mistakes, the government of the USA never stopped crowing about the "defeat" of the USSR long enough to understand that the USSR defeated itself through overspending and under consideration of long term goals while constantly working towards short term responses to the USA’s military build up. St. Ronnie of Reagan didn’t do shit to stop the USSR and he certainly didn’t have the foresight to understand that his methods of governing America were just borrowed from the USSR and were leading this country down the same path the Soviets once took.
Let me tell you a story about a country that has deep natural gas and oil reserves. That country is named Venezuela. The current government of Venezuela is no friend to the Neo-Cons. Oh, no! They are the anathema of everything that the Neo-Cons want for themselves. They are socialist (speaking of Oh Noes!) They don’t kiss the Multinational Corporations asses, to which the Neo-Cons are so richly invested in. They actually nationalized their natural gas and oil industries to keep the profits from the sales of these products within the borders of Venezuela, for Venezuelans.
Bad Venezuela! Horrid, nasty Venezuela! No Neo-Con biscuit for you!
The Russian Navy will be holding joint Naval exercises with the Venezuelan Navy within Venezuela’s coastal waters in November of this year. Yes, just before the election.
If you thought the Cold War was coming back to a country near you, you were right. Yet this time, it is a war for Cold Hard Cash.
Russia is now a part of the Multinational Corporate World. They are about making profits. The run up to the new Cold Hard Cash War is ongoing and quite healthy. Our military industrial complex makes a huge profit from the posing of war with Russia and so do the multinational corporatists that invest in them. The Russians continue to profit from the natural resources in their country and those that they can befriend that no longer want to be aligned with the USA. It’s a win-win for Neo-Cons everywhere. A kabuki dance set into motion that will never stop until someone in the government of the USA stands up and says ENOUGH! NO MORE!
It is our job to make sure that we elect a Democratic President in 2008 and keep that President under our watchful eye as we see this through together. The corporations own our countries.
It is time for us to take our country back.
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x-posted at EENRblog.com