[Marxism] Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq

["Nasir Khan" <nasir.khan@xxxxxxx>]

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Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq in nationally televised 
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WSWS : News & Analysis : North America



By Barry Gray, September 14, 2007

President Bush's nationally televised speech, delivered Thursday evening from 
the Oval Office, was the low point of a week of lies and absurdities designed 
to justify the United States' bloody colonial war in Iraq. The ugly farce began 
with the congressional testimony Monday and Tuesday of Gen. David Petraeus, the 
top US commander in Iraq, and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

Bush cited their fraudulent assessment of the "success" of the military "surge" 
to outline a perspective for continuing the American occupation of Iraq and 
transforming the country into a permanent American protectorate, whose vast oil 
resources will be exploited by US oil companies, and whose territory will be 
used as a staging ground for military attacks on Iran and a strategic base for 
American domination of the Middle East.

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