Bush’s false promises

THE EDITOR: Early reports from the battlefields in Iraq have exposed the false promises of US president Bush, who claimed that his aim was to liberate Iraqi people from Saddam, the wicked despot. We now learn that the Turks will enter northern Iraq, the land of the Kurds. The Turks’ desire to enter this area is to subdue the Iraqi Kurds who are expected to seize the opportunity to establish an independent state, and therefore raise hopes of independence among the Kurds who now live in Turkey. The net result of the US invasion for the Kurds will be the exchange of one oppressor for another. Where is the democracy in this?

I predict that very soon the real reason for this war will become very clear. It is the vast oil reserves of Iraq. I fully expect the US to use several pretexts to appropriate Iraqi oil. They might first claim that Iraq’s oil must be used to pay the costs of this so-called war of ‘liberation’. The US will then assert that the Iraqi oil will be used to pay mainly US contractors for the rebuilding of Iraq. These and other ploys must be seen by thinking people everywhere as shallow pretexts for the theft of a nation’s wealth, and a sad return to colonisation of sovereign nations. Those who fail to see this are already colonised.

DAVID SUBRAN
Chaguanas