Category: Mid East

Australians admit that they ‘are in Iraq for oil’.

For the first time a nation has come clean in an admission that at least one of their major reasons for sending troops to Iraq is to secure crude oil resources.

While Australia is admitting only the obvious let’s give them credit for having the courage to make a clear statement.

No so with the hypocritical wannabee masters of the universe in Washington, D.C. President Bush is still pushing his version of how noble it is to spread democracy and freedom to Iraq and to the rest of the world.

He doesn’t seem to be honest enough to mention that there are about 2,500,000 Iraqis less in Iraq now than at the beginning of the US lead invasion. That is about ten percent of the population that has been either killed or who have fled for their lives to neighboring countries.

I don’t think these people have very much enjoyed the fruits of democracy that George W. Bush has brought to Iraq.

Bravo for Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson who said that maintaining “resource security” in the Middle East was a priority for the government in Canberra.

It makes you wonder why the American government thinks that the American people can’t handle the truth. Many Americans already know that Iraq is a Peak Oil War. If Bush would admit the truth perhaps he would gain at least some measure of respect for finally making a statement about Iraq that makes some sense.

While of course it is a selfish altitude, my own opinion is that in a world of finite natural resources, especially oil resources, and sharply increasing demand, the American people would understand the need to secure natural resources as a national priority.

What in the world are Canadian troops doing in Afghanistan? Judging from this video they are fighting for their lives against a very tough Taliban force, that’s what.

After the 9/11 attack Canada immediately supported the United States in its military strikes on the Taliban in Afghanistan. Canada did not send troops into Iraq in support of President Bush’s foolish decision to invade Iraq before the job in Afghanistan was finished.

Hello! Anyone seen Osama bin Laden lately?

It increasingly looks like our friends to the North made a good decision not to send troops to Iraq. At the moment Afghanistan looks like it is giving the Canadians all the action they need.

At this point the Canadians must be wondering just how open ended their commitment to combat operations in Afghanistan will be. Five years after 9/11 and it appears that the Taliban have regrouped and are stronger than ever.

Certainly they are better financed. The Taliban have reversed their previous stand against growing poppies and opium production as they find the profits from the drug trade can finance a growing insurgency.

As this video demonstrates the fighting in Afghanistan is not for the weak hearted. The Taliban are not ever going to just give up. As long as there are foreign troops in Afghanistan the Taliban will fight them.

Even the Canadians.