A Disaster in the Making
03 November 2006
by Christian McPhate, Contributing Writer for AnaiRhoads.org
AnaiRhoads.org - "As the 20th century draws to a close, the United States stands as the world’s preeminent power. Having led the West to victory in the Cold War, America faces an opportunity and a challenge: Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievements of past decades? Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests?" – The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an American political think tank based in Washington D.C that promotes American global leadership, stated at the group’s 1997 inception ceremony.
Moreover, like the disastrous expedition undertaken by the Athenians against Sicily in 415 B.C. in an attempt to expand and secure future generations of the Athenian empire, the American super-power of the 21st century has fallen into the same trap of ethnocentrism through the urgings of certain "interest/lobbying/we want to control the world" groups.
In 1998, members of the PNAC wrote to President Bill Clinton and urged him to remove Saddam Hussein from power, for he posed a threat to the United States, Middle Eastern allies and the oil resources.
After the attacks on 9-11, Americans were in favor of the invasion of Afghanistan in pursuit of the perpetrators of the twin tower attacks. All across American television screens, the media showed images of the infamous Osama Bin Laden, as promises of justice with vengeance spewed forth from the President’s mouth.
The invasion commenced with overwhelming support from the Republican-led Congress.
And the American forces with little help from the international community put a grinding halt to the mechanics of the Taliban, a friend of friend of Al Qaida.
"The War on Terror will set the course for this new century and determine the destiny of millions across the world," Bush stated in his address to the nation on Sept. 11, 2006.
In 2003, under the "sound" advise of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfield and Vice President Dick Cheney, both members of the PNAC as well as Paul Wolfowitz (president of the World Bank and former Deputy Secretary of Defense) and 13 other cabinet members, Bush ignited a fever within his partisan-controlled Congress.
He received the power of a wartime president and commenced on his next invasion:
The country of Iraq and the removal of American-installed president Saddam Hussein, a tyrant responsible for thousands of Iraqis deaths and the repression of democratic-capitalistic technology within the realms of free elections.
However, in "Rebuilding America's Defenses," a report released in 2000, stated:
"While the unresolved conflict in Iraq provides the immediate justification [for US military presence], the need for a substantial American force presence in the gulf transcends the issue of regime of Saddam Hussein. Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region."
Under the dark shroud of weapons of mass destruction, and a secret lust for the world’s third biggest oil reserve, U.S. troops attacked Iraq and defeated the ill-equipped Iraqi army, and with each swing of the bloody sword of peace, the promise of free elections cleaved into being out of the mold of tyranny.
Nevertheless, like the disastrous miscalculations of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 76-138) when he ordered the building of a new city called "Aelia Capitolina" on the desolate site of Jerusalem, which enacted a devastating rebellion by the "Son of the Star," Bush is beginning to feel the same effects of his disastrous undertaking with a "democratic, free country" of Iraq.
In addition, with few successes in the areas of assassination on the top leaders within the terrorist cell network of Al Qaida under the government’s belt, the feds still has yet seized the person responsible for the destruction of American safety—Osama Bin Laden.
The American people are in an outrage and with congressional elections just around the corner, Bush and his party of PNAC members are scrambling to change public outlook.
"We cannot allow our dissatisfaction to turn into disillusionment about our purpose in this war." – President George W. Bush repeated eight times, during his speech on Oct. 25, 2006 in Washington.
Yet with the wasting away of taxpayer dollars in the contracting fiascos of Halliburton’s subsidiary, KBR Inc, dancing across the economy of Iraq and the success of the Bush administration’s lies on providing electricity, water and oil distribution and the rebuilding of education and health facilities, what does one expect?
"The ultimate accountability rests with me," Bush said.
Indeed it does.
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