7-09-05, 931 am
With the tally of US war dead now at 1,841 and climbing, and thousands more wounded, Bush continues his attempt to con the US people by linking the Iraqi rebellion with the September 11th attacks.
But the con isn’t working so well anymore and his approval ratings have fallen to their lowest levels in his presidency.
Some people are understandingly dismayed by a president who insists their sons and daughters are 'defending our freedom' yet ignores that the Veterans Affairs Department is more than one billion dollars short of funds for this year.
To top it off, he was noted as being disrespectful of a dead soldier’s mother in an AlterNet article July 6, by Cindy Sheehan, founder of Gold Star Families For Peace. She met with Bush and he could not remember her son’s name and demanded in a condescending tone 'Who we’all honorin’ here today?'
The issue for Bush of course isn’t defense of the nation, or about other people’s children who are dying. It is about acquiring oil.
Oil has been a priority for his family for four generations and enjoys a fringe benefit of engorging the weapons industry.
The Bush dynasty has been intimately connected to oil and its profits since the days of his great-grandfather and the link between the weapons industry and Bush oil goes back to WWI.
One of W’s grandfathers, Sam Bush, led the Federal War Industries Board’s small arms, ammunition, and ordnance section when he was president of an Ohio company that produced armaments.
His other grandfather, Prescott Bush, directed companies involved in US war production during WWII, and ex President George H.W. Bush, who worked for the company, later secretly traded arms in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
The obvious intent to protect the oil spoils in Iraq of the Bush family and their supporters and business partners was made clear through Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003: 'Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain Other Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest.'
The order plainly states that any judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void, with respect to the Development Fund for Iraq, and all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, including any Iraqi-origin oil inventories, wherever located, in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest, that are, or hereafter come, within the possession or control of United States persons.
The order defines a 'person' as 'any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.'
Perhaps it isn’t a con after all. George W. Bush may really believe his oil interests are 'people' and should be defended by the people of the United States. After all, oil is in his blood.
From Prensa Latina
