Condi’s “New Middle East”

By Patrick J. Buchanan
August 8th, 2006

“Things are as they are, and their consequences will be what they will be. Why then should we seek to be deceived?”

Columnist Stewart Alsop, dead now these 30 years, once closed a column with this quote from the philosopher Bishop Berkeley. His column, I believe, was about Vietnam.

As we approach the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we, too, can see the shape of things to come.

In the ideology of “democratic fundamentalism” to which George W. Bush converted after 9/11, we are simply in a rough patch on the glory road to a democratic Middle East and “the end of tyranny on this earth.”

In reality, our situation has never been more grim. (….Full Article)

Several Reasons Why it isn’t about Oil

By Curt Maynard
August 8th, 2006

The war in Iraq, and America’s so-called Imperialistic ventures in the Mid East have nothing to do with oil.

How do you know that you might be asking?

Without delving into some very credible “conspiracy theories,” which tend to cause the eyes of “enlightened” Americans to glaze over in their own unique self-righteous stupor, let me relate some facts below, that should, assuming the reader has the ability to think properly as my friend in Rome Alfio Faro, likes to say, convince even the skeptic that Bush’s recent forays into the Middle East have nothing to do with the monopolization of oil reserves. I won’t leave the reader hanging, after relating these facts I’ll spell out in one word exactly why Bush is occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and why he intends to attack Iran and Syria as well.[1]

The Third World nation of South Africa produces a barrel of oil from coal for under $35.00 a barrel.[2] The United States of America has some of the largest coal reserves in the world.[3] These coal reserves are of a far higher quality than that used by South Africa, the sulfur content is much less, and thus, American coal can be converted to oil cheaper than can South African coal. (more…)