Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

"The attacks coincided with a visit to Iraq by a Republican congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain, who declared at a news conference that the new American security plan was `making progress,' that there was cause for `very cautious optimism.'"

Please, Senator McCain, we have heard those clichés before.  When the Vietnam quagmire stalled, the other cliché used to offer a glimmer of hope was, "There's light at the end of the tunnel!"

Bush backer McCain is using this trip to try desperately to make a political point against the greatest Mideast exodus happening in Iraq every day since the Jews made their exodus from Egypt in biblical times.

In Mozul two suicide bombers shattered the silence.  They detonated themselves, proving their point by sacrificing their lives.  

This tragic event happened outside an Army base, killing 2 civilians while wounding 15 soldiers and 2 civilians.

Worse yet, 130 miles north of Baghdad, a popular marketplace had a bomb explode.  That blast killed 3 people and wounded 4 others.

At last the burning question that must be asked is, "Is all this hell in Iraq based upon a fiendish desire by U.S. corporations to seize control of Iraq's oil?"

Antonia Juhasz, author of the book "The Bush Agenda" has presented eye-opening facts regarding Iraq oil and the corresponding quest for control of that nation by the neoconservative regime in Washington.  

Juhasz explained in a syndicated article published December 8, 2006 in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times that there are 80 oil wells in Iraq. The U.S. is backing a contract wherein 63 of Iraq's oil wells will be leased to foreign investors and 17 will be retained by Iraq.  Before the Iraq War the nation's oil was nationalized.

Senator McCain did not mention the desire for control of Iraq's oil by foreign investors through a lopsided lease arrangement.  

Could this information have slipped McCain's mind?  Hardly.  Such facts are better left unstated.  Ignore the facts and unstintingly tout the irrational and self-serving Bush line.  This is McCain's game plan in a nutshell.  

World leaders know very well the role of acquiring leased control of Iraq's oil played in the Iraq War.  They, like McCain, would prefer not to talk about that.