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Michael A. Hoffman II, Editor
March 19, 2006
Kevin Phillips and the "War for Oil" Mantra
by Michael A. Hoffman II
The New York Times today reviewed "American Theocracy," the new book by
Kevin Phillips. According to the Times, as reported by Alan Brinkley,
Mr. Phillips embraces the kosher-Left's war-for-oil thesis:
"The American press in the first days of the Iraq war reported
extensively on the Pentagon's failure to post American troops in front
of the National Museum in Baghdad, which, as a result, was looted of
many of its great archaeological treasures. Less widely reported, but to
Phillips far more meaningful, was the immediate posting of troops around
the Iraqi Oil Ministry, which held the maps and charts that were the key
to effective oil production. Phillips fully supports an explanation of
the Iraq war that the Bush administration dismisses as conspiracy theory
that its principal purpose was to secure vast oil reserves that would
enable the United States to control production and to lower prices.
('Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve
underneath,' an oil analyst said a couple of years ago. 'You can't ask
for better than that.') Terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, tyranny,
democracy and other public rationales were, Phillips says, simply ruses
to disguise the real motivation for the invasion.
"And while this argument may be somewhat too simplistic to explain the
complicated mix of motives behind the war, it is hard to dismiss
Phillips's larger argument: that the pursuit of oil has for at least 30
years been one of the defining elements of American policy in the world;
and that the Bush administration unusually dominated by oilmen has
taken what the president deplored recently as the nation's addiction to
oil to new and terrifying levels. The United States has embraced a kind
of 'petro-imperialism,' Phillips writes, "the key aspect of which is the
U.S. military's transformation into a global oil-protection force," and
which 'puts up a democratic facade, emphasizes freedom of the seas (or
pipeline routes) and seeks to secure, protect, drill and ship oil, not
administer everyday affairs." (End quote)
This thesis is faulty on two grounds. First, if the pursuit of oil were
the paramount policy-driver that Phillips and the dominant Zionist wing
of the Democrat Party contend, then Bush Sr. would have dumped the
Israelis, cozied up to Saddam Hussein, signed a lucrative oil
development contract with Iraq and allowed Saddam to police Iraq while
the US and its pimping little sister Britain, rebuilt the infrastructure
and pumped the oil. The same scenario could have played out in Iran and
Saudi Arabia.
Instead, Bush Jr., the messianic Zionist, severely hampers American
access to cheap oil by crusading against Israel's Iraqi and Iranian
enemies. It is a comedy of the-emperor-has-no-clothes proportions, to
argue as Phillips allegedly does, that "petro-imperialism" is the holy
grail of the Bush administration. If it were, Israel would have been
left to partner solely with its Pacific Islander allies, and US
motorists would be enjoying buck-a-gallon fuel at the gas and diesel
pumps.
Second, according to the Times, Phillips concedes, indeed highlights,
the fact that George W. Bush is enamored of "charlatan biblical
scholars" who "have identified as predictors of the apocalypse...a war
in Iraq, the Jewish settlement of the whole of biblical Israel...He
(Phillips) convincingly demonstrates that the Bush administration has
calculatedly reached out to such believers and encouraged them to see
the president's policies as a response to premillennialist thought. He
also suggests that the president and other members of his administration
may actually believe these things themselves, that religious belief is
the basis of policy, not just a tactic for selling it to the public."
Wait a minute. Doesn't Phillips claim that US policy is driven by
"petro-imperalism"? But now he's saying it's based on Bush's
Judeo-Churchian dispensational Zionism? It can't be both, so which is
it?
Clearly, it is Bush's fervor for Zionism, which coincides not just with
the dispensationalism of the fundamentalist churches, but with the
occult doctrine of the western secret societies, with which Bush is
affiliated as a member of Skull and Bones.
There's nothing Christ-like about the Bush administration or Protestant
fundamentalism. It's not just the mass murder of Muslim innocents by US
forces, or the inhuman conditions for inmates in the US prison system,
or the lethal injection of suspect felons in Texas without the testimony
of two eyewitnesses. It is also and preeminently the usury of a
financial system which, before Calvin, was denounced as Satanic by every
major Christian leader, from the popes to Martin Luther. Today,
America's economic system has that devil in its bones, with not a peep
from the supposed Bible-true fundamentalists concerning this
"financialization" of our nation:
"...the national debt currently over $8 trillion is only the tip of
the iceberg. There has also been an explosion of corporate debt, state
and local bonded debt, international debt through huge trade imbalances,
and consumer debt (mostly in the form of credit-card balances and
aggressively marketed home-mortgage packages). Taken together, this
present and future debt may exceed $70 trillion.
"The creation of a national-debt culture, Phillips argues, although
exacerbated by the policies of the Bush administration, has been the
work of many people over many decades among them Alan Greenspan, who,
he acidly notes, blithely and irresponsibly ignored the rising debt to
avoid pricking the stock-market bubble it helped produce. It is most of
all a product of the 'financialization' of the American economy the
turn away from manufacturing and toward an economy based on moving and
managing money..." (End quote)
Usury is forbidden in Islam; another of the motives for rabbi-ridden
George W. Bush and his regime to make war not for, but upon, the oil
countries.
But Kevin Phillips, certified deep thinker, doesn't have the backbone to
reveal these harsh truths. He too has "financialized" --in this case--
his writing, in order to leverage his position with the Money Power.
Instead of an education in geo-political and religious reality, Phillips
serves up a double-minded hodge-podge of fact and fiction.
Mr. Philips can't bring himself to type the words "war for Israel." At
some sub-strata of his conscience he may want to, but the letters from
his keyboard keep spelling out "war for oil."
For those, like Philips, who want to avoid a Zionist fatwa against their
writing, this is the only possible mantra.
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