Bush’s Burger King Bill!

I now understand why President Bush is a failed oil baron. The man simply refuses to see the handwriting on the wall. You see stocks falling, Bush sees a windfall. Right now the war on Iraq is a bear market. A New York Times/CBS News poll says Americans view the war in Iraq more negatively than at any time since the invasion more than 4 years ago. It is under this scrutiny that Congress and Senate voted to pass Bush’s War Funds Bill, others however see nothing but bull in this measure.

Over 4 years ago Bush carried on like one of those spurned “Hoochie Mamas” on Maury, making false accusations about someone being her babydadday. Only in this case Saddam Hussein was his daddy’s enemy, not W’s. When Iraq failed the al Qaeda-9/11 DNA test Bush stuck to his Niger (that’s yellowcake to you). On Thursday 5/24 the so-called new congress in simple street language “punked-out” on a Bill they’ve been trying to get Bush to pass for months. The first War Funds Bill pitch which congress approved in April contained a 10/1 troop withdrawal timetable. Bush vetoed the Bill on the 4th anniversary of his “Mission Accomplished” speech onboard that aircraft carrier. You couldn’t get Bush to land on a carrier during the Vietnam War and there he was, bringing it. It is to laugh.

Of course today Bush is still claiming to support the troops, signing off on $4 billion for military operations, training, equipment and an offer the Iraqis can’t refuse; the Iraqi government must meet a series of “benchmarks” as a condition to the US repairing the very land they destroyed according to the New York Times. Some time ago the president figured the best way to get his legislative opponents to sign one of his pro-war measures, is to stall them until just before a holiday break. At that point you could probably find some so anxious to get home, they’d sign off on the Holocaust. Back in late ’05 when democrat John Murtha called for an immediate pullout of American troops there was what AOLNews called “a vote hastily arranged by the GOP” that the dems lost 403 to 3 and then they were off to celebrate Thanksgiving. In fact days earlier, Senate republicans-as with House republicans-beat a move to get Bush to set a troop withdrawal date 58-40.

This passing of the War Funds Bill is a smoked(screened) Memorial Day Turkey, it opened the way to attach other features to it; the federal wage increase on the minimum wage, another $17 billion in Gulf Coast hurricane recovery, children’s health care and veterans and troops health care.

Congress voted 220-142 to support the funding. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi voted against but then said the benchmarks were “token restrictions.” Senate approved 80-14, among the opponents were Hillary Clinton It seems many didn’t want to be labeled as “not supporting the troops” That GOP frat-boy prank should be easy enough to recognize, but evidently it isn’t. What the Times didn’t go into detail about is, just what exactly are those “token restrictions?” The following Sunday Ann Wright penned a column for Truthout.org (www.truthout.org ) Ms Wright is a former Army Col., and diplomatic corps official who resigned from the State Department because she opposed the war in Iraq. Her piece titled “What Congress Really Approved: Benchmark No.1: Privatizing Iraq’s Oil for US Companies,” lays out in concise and clear detail that Bush oil addicts are using this Bill to simply steal the 2nd largest reserves in the world through privatization.

According to Wright it wasn’t Bush or any member of the House or Senate who authored the law: “The privatization law, written by American oil company consultants hired by the Bush Administration, would leave control with the Iraqi National Oil for only 17 of the 80 known oil fields. The remainder (two thirds) of known oil fields and all yet undiscovered ones would be up for grabs by the private oil companies of the world (but guess how many would go to the United States’ firms given to them by the compliant Iraqi government?)” In plain English, whereas the American troops will see more Burger Kings, KFCs and Taco Bells during their tours of duty, it’ll be Bush, Cheney and their rich American oil buddies that will have it they’re way.

This will make them the first middle-eastern nation to allow their oil to be privatized by outsiders, Wright cites how up to now Iraq as well as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran etc., only give international oil companies limited contracts for one or two years. This War Funds Bill passed by Congress forces Iraq into an unheard of 20-30 year contract with the US in order to get reconstruction funds to repair damages to their homeland initiated by the US military. Pure extortion at it’s best. Now I know what you’re thinking, what has all of this to do with the attacks on 9/11/01? My point exactly, none. The US oil firms will be sucking up oil profits from the Iraqis like a fat kid cramming down cake in a bakery during closing hours. If you think the price gauging at American pumps will stop, then I’ve got some swamp-land in Texas to sell you. Blackmail low, sell high. Beware of duplicitous US presidents bearing gifts, nicely packaged but dripping blood.

Bush has had not-so-veiled designs on Iraq’s oil for some time now. According to investigative reporter Greg Palast, after the 4/03 victory proclamation Bush assigned General Jay Garner to “keep the peace and bring democracy.” He gave Garner a 101 page plan on how to do this which included instructions to sell off all of Iraq’s assets; banks, oil fields, oil and supporting industries and changing their copyright and tax codes. Reportedly Garner refused to play ball with Bush’s IMF-like plan and was replaced by Paul Bremer. This is the man most famous for saying “we got’em,” but after he canceled their elections and handpicked their own government, the insurgents got a lot of our troops. Back in ’05 the Iraqis said they had a legitimate right of resistance, Shiits, Sunnis, Kurds all. What will they say about this extended oil-lease plan?