Bush Seeks Backdoor Third Term

Career politicians, lobbyists, businessmen and mobsters seek political offices and influence. The entire game is played to seek the control the resources or purse strings of the government and organizational budgets. And then open the spigots towards those who get them elected.

All the debates in the media and the interaction of politicians with public are designed to roll out sweet candy of manipulation during the election process. The entrenched politicians find it very hard to give up power and purse strings. They are always planning to do something to stretch the control of resources. In this quest they are aided and abetted very powerful and well oiled money machines known as vested interests and lobbyists.

Bush was a creation of a group of strong lobbies. They imposed musclemen like Cheney and Rumsfeld on him who were clearly a front for the war making industrial complex. For 8 years they have had free rein. Now at the end of their constitutional mandate, they are planning to saddle the next President with a fait accompli which will extend the lease of life to their economic backers. Some of the acts which are planned to accomplish this:

Stack the federal bureaucracy with those who will continue the war agenda or thwart the new administration in case they grow too aggressive. It takes years for the new government to replace them and repair the damage.

Award no bid or indirect contracts to war making contractors and build a pipeline to banana republics of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Doha, Emirates and puppeteer rulers of Easter Europe and Africa. How can Halliburton and its clones give up the consistent flow of unearned money?

Force an unrealistic security arrangement down the Iraqi throats ensuring continued inter communal fighting. The idea of introducing permanent military bases in Iraq belies the knowledge of past history and Middle Eastern and Muslim culture. Al Qaida is the child of our military presence in Saudi Arabia. Keeping any presence in Iraq in my view will give birth to Al Qaida II and more Bin Laden’s. But it is likely to happen and will facilitate Bush third term.

Keep intact, the hands off policy on Palestinian problem by forging an international cooperative effort with Israel military industrial complex. Both war machine backed lobbies sell arms worldwide to autocratic and tyrannical rulers in the name of democracy and freedom. It suits them to keep the Palestinian conflict ongoing. It has worldwide implications and keeps the big and small conflicts going.

From here to Jan 4, 2009 keep on upping the ante with regard to bogey called Iran. Make aggressive moves towards Iran and push a proxy war by Israel with them. With Iraq ebbing, the efforts to launch firecracker war with Iran would be most beneficial to war making lobby. It will ignite Hezbollah, Iraq, India, Pakistan and most of the Muslim world.

President Eisenhower was true when he warned us about military industrial complex. Can the people of US overcome this challenge by War Lobby? We can start by heeding to President Eisenhower?

“We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”