"The Defense Department claims 12 nations with nuclear weapons programs, 13 with biological weapons, 16 with chemical weapons, and 28 with ballistic missiles as existing and emerging threats to the United States. But only one of those countries sits atop the second largest oil reserves in the world."

Charles Peña, Senior Defense Policy Fellow of the Cato Institute, for The Chicago Tribune

NEW YORK--The American invasion of Iraq promises to be a blockbuster. They've designed the logos, focus-grouped the test audiences, and run the trailers. At this late date Bush wouldn't dare disappoint us with a boring old peace agreement. There's just one thing still missing from the script: the happy ending.

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The Bushies insist they have no interest whatsoever in Iraqi oil. Their war aims, they say, are the elimination of a dangerous dictator and his potential arsenal, liberating the Iraqi people, rebuilding the country and spreading democracy, all while keeping nosy neighbors--Iran, Turkey, Syria--out. Sounds nice. Maybe the cost--billions of dollars, thousands of lives--will be worth it.

There's just one thing. Does anyone remember September 2001?

Bush marketed the invasion and subsequent occupation of Afghanistan exactly the same way. First we were going to go in and get Osama and his buddies, "dead or alive." Then we'd liberate the long-suffering Afghan people from Taliban rule.
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Liberation, not exploitation, was what we had in mind for Afghanistan.
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Post-Taliban Afghanistan is essentially the Taliban Afghanistan minus law and order. Stonings continue and women remain under burqas, but now thugs and rapists roam the streets unchecked.
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Bush didn't liberate Afghans. He didn't rebuild anything. He spread dictatorship, not democracy. And he didn't even try to catch Osama.

Bush's one accomplishment in Afghanistan, it turned out, was the one thing he promised that he would never do. On Dec. 26, Karzai met with the president of Turkmenistan and the foreign minister of Pakistan to work out the final details of the $3.2 billion Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline Bush's friends had sworn would never be built.

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