Follow-Up

We now have confirmation of what I wrote last week about the Bush-Cheney administration’s real reasons for going to war with Iraq.  In an Associated Press story, published in the March 19 Johnson City Press, Cheney is described as visiting several sites in Iraq, meeting with Kurdish and Shiite leaders and is quoted as saying “We are certainly counting on President Barzani’s leadership to help us conclude a new strategic relationship between the United States and Iraq, as well as to pass crucial pieces of national legislation in the months ahead.”  These crucial pieces of legislation would be the petroleum production service agreements I wrote about.

 Thus what must be the single most critical reason for our having invaded Iraq has found its way, five years later, into our local mainstream media - on page 4B!  The AP article is longer than I can reprint here, but you can look it up.  It pretty much reinforces everything printed in my last post.