Nothing But Politics

[Amaunet]

Why Cuba? This is not just what we needed, we asked for this.

While our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq will continue in 2004, we are resolved as well to turn the president's goal of a free and democratic Middle East into a reality. We will expand the Middle East Partnership Initiative to encourage political, economic and educational reform throughout the region. We will also stand by the Iranian people, and others living under oppressive regimes, as they strive for freedom.

This struggle will not be confined to the Middle East. We are working for the advent of a free Cuba, and toward democratic reform in other countries whose people are denied liberty. And we are resolved to support the young democracies that have risen in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The consolidation of freedom in many new but often fragile democracies will shape the aspirations of people everywhere, assuring that the 21st century will be a century of liberty worldwide. - Powell

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/opinion/01POWE.html?ex=1073984220&ei=1&en=2b6ff2fc55f780ab

The ‘pattern’ that has emerged is that we ‘reform’ countries who have oil and gas reserves or who are considered a nuclear threat to us or Israel. With Afghanistan it is the pipeline, with Iraq it is the oil, with Iran the oil and possibly nuclear weapons. Bush already went to Africa and checked out their gas and oil prospects. So it is with Latin America.

We know that Cuba does not have either oil or gas reserves of consequence nor is there a pipeline involved.

The ‘pattern’ also is that Russia parallels the United States, we are trying to forge an assemblage of bogus democracies headed by compliant thugs as is Russia, we have begun the quest for dominance in space as has Russia, Bush is whittling away at our constitutional rights as is Russia crushing theirs. We have started putting bases in Russia’s ‘near abroad’, in your face arms that threaten Russia at its borders. Hence we see Brazil in negotiations with Russia to possibly gain access to nuclear weapons. Brazil has watched with horror as we have tried to take out their neighbor, Venezuela. Venezuela is the fourth largest producer of oil, and the corporate elites whose political power runs unfettered in the Bush/Cheney oligarchy appear interested in privatizing Venezuela's oil industry. Furthermore, the establishment might be concerned that Chavez's `barter deals' with 12 Latin American countries and Cuba are effectively cutting the U.S. dollar out of the vital oil transaction currency cycle. Commodities are being traded among these countries in exchange for Venezuela's oil, thereby reducing reliance on fiat dollars. If these unique oil transactions proliferate, they could create more devaluation pressure on the dollar. Continuing attempts by the CIA to remove Hugo Chavez appear likely. I feel that the devaluation of the dollar would not be significant enough without the cooperation of OPEC and Russia therefore going after Cuba for that reason does not seem legitimate.

Brazil is very much against, as is the vast majority of the world, our pre-emptive strike policy which in its exactness to that of Nazi Germany has been condemned by Nuremberg. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that some Russian missiles in Brazil will be aimed at the United States. In early 2001, Russian authorities officially expressed their interest in launching Soyuz vehicles from the Guyana Space Centre in French Guyana, Brazil’s other neighbor. Soyuz rockets are due to start launching from France's Kourou space centre in Guyana in 2006. Russia already has an impressive nuclear strike force aimed at the United States from the north. It would be prudent that they also try for the south and get as close to our borders or ‘near abroad’ as possible. To put bases on our porch as we have done to Russia is in keeping with the ‘pattern’ of parallels.

That Bush is going through all of this trouble to free Cuba in order to gain the support of the voting Cubans, when he is almost assured of reelection, does not make sense but more importantly it does not fit the ‘pattern’.

Cuba it would seem is negotiating for or has Russian missiles. Cuba is a logical place to put Russian weapons and it fits the ‘pattern’ of parallels in that it certainly is our ‘near abroad’.

What goes around comes around.

I have never seen such a monstrous regression in world affairs and what is more disconcerting is that a large percentage of United States citizens, steeped in their archaic partisan politics, is completely oblivious to what is going on. IMO -Am

Reference:
Top 100 Oil reserves

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/ene_oil_res

Top 100 Natural gas reserves

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/ene_nat_gas_res

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