IRAQ IS TEACHING HISTORY

The initiation of the war in Iraq by United States Power Elites and the years of conflict since its inception provide a perfect history lesson.

The war is based on the drive by oil interests and armament manufacturers to increase their wealth. Add the financial vultures, the construction outfits, the "contractors" of all kinds, to that immoral cadre and you see them all licking their bloody chops in Iraq.There is literally no other sane explanation for the invasion and subsequent actions by the United States government and the forces that drive that government.

The constellation, or better put, conglomeration of competing entities could never have been anticipated by the initiators of the conflict. Three major ethnic goupings; the Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds were unleashed to vent old furies on each other. The religious underpinnings of these three groups splintered into distinct groupings identified by charismatic religious leaders and not-so-charismatic Mullahs and Imams and fragmented further by their mosques' locations in the country. Fighting cadres are also made up by large and small geographic area loyalties. Tribal fealties and fealty to their sheiks, splintered the splinter groups into smaller splinters. And now add all the foreign lunatic Islaamic fundamentalist groups that put feet on the ground to fight for whatever piece or pieces of the pie they could obtain through force of terror. And finally, historical Power Elites who patriotically joined the homicide, religicide, and fraticide, to compete for their share of the wealth.

It must be made clear that the ones who fight and die, are NOT members of Power Elites. They are patriotic or religious or simple-minded puppets motivated by manipulators who use their bodies and their blood to acquire, protect, or maximize, their wealth.

By learning from the past, the more powerful the Power Elite was when it entered the fray, the more powerful it will be when it comes out of the fray. So, my prediction is that the United States and its minions and manipulators will come out with the lion's share of control over Iraqi oil - which is why the fighting goes on, why the ability and willingness to form a cohesive national government is non existent, and what the whole exercise is about anyway. Ask Dick Cheney.