What will happen when it finishes?

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday April 07, 2003 19:03 by James Conole conole at eircom dot net

What is going to happen when this war ends? What is america's next plan?

According to the majority, this "war" is at an end. Soon the coalition of two and a half will delare victory over the resistance and thus, they will have,according to them, liberated Iraq.

Yet what will happen afterwards? Will the benevolent forces of the US and Britain bring democracy,peace and stability as promised.Will Iraq's people rejoice and honour the day that the Americans brought peace? Or if not,then what?

If only what I asked hitherto was true. Oh, how wrong all of us anti-war protesters would have been-how absurdly foolish we were. However, I fear that the pseudo-philanthropic "coalition" has much more on its mind than liberation.

This war is truly a test on America's goodwill.
But what is in it for the Americans though?

What about the secret privatisation of the oil that thay have planned and the American business contracts for the rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructure.Would these be of benefit to America? I suppose that this rebuilding doesn't matter as it is being paid for by the oil reserves.Lets just forget about this.

What of the weapons of mass destruction? Where are they?-nowhere of course-they are non-existant.
Considering this, just imagine how many weapons America has sold to Saddam in recent years. None, of course. However, America is the worlds largest arms supplier, how much money would they make if they were to democratise a middle eastern country?(think of Israel) How much money will the British Government make on arms sales to a "safe" country?
Will the new government be a true Iraqi democracy or an American-British interest democracy. Only time can tell; unfortunately I think that I will have to side with the latter.

Or has America turned over a new leaf?