Re: [Marxism] Dollars for deaths: military-bureaucratic alienation in Fallujah

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From:                   "Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> The mind boggles at the military-bureaucratic mind-set of the occupying
> forces. It is bizarre, not to say mad. "So you lost a son or husband in
> our clean-up operation? That's tough. Well here's news for you -
> the State Department is paying good money to compensate your
> loss. Plus, you're getting the benefit of all these reconstruction
> projects". Operation successful - the patient died. It's like a bad
> dream, a nightmare, only this is really happening. How anybody
> can see this as "the liberation of Iraq" is beyond me. Inexorably
> the "war against terror" has mutated into state terrorism
> conducted with the blessings of the US Congress. And how
> can this "build legitimacy for U.S. aims, methods and allies"
> as Wesley Clark claims? Thankfully Holland and Hungary
> are pulling the troops out soon.
>
> Jurriaan


 I look at it this way: first, by destroying Iraq's infrastructure, the
they/the U.S. are severely the Iraqis people]from their past --
historically a common, and quite successful, ploy used of
colonizers to insert their hegemony . The destruciton is also all-so-
wonderful for military contractors who will continue to make a killing
(pardon the pun) the longer the occupation is prolonged. Then there
is also the lucrative "reconstruction" contracts being offered to
Bush cronies.  And best of of all from a ideologically standpoint of
the imperiaists, is the contribution of Bush and company towards
the "reconstruction efforts", which is, for Bush, simply great PR.
I'm sure even the most staunch "Democrats" would applaud such
efforts.

Everyway you look at it, pulvarizing the infrastructure is simply
great business for the imperialists.

DOQ

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