The war in Iraq will continue throughout the 21st century.  This is a prediction that I have made two or three times in my articles .  And now, finally, I have Richard Cheney saying it almost in so many words. 

According to Yahoo News, the vice president, in reaffirming George W. Bush’s intention to proceed with the escalation of the war in Iraq, in spite of any limp-wristed, non-binding resolutions from Congress, philosophized, “It is the kind of conflict that's going to drive our policy and our government for the next 20 or 30 or 40 years. We have to prevail and we have to have the stomach for the fight long term.”

This seems to be in disagreement with what Cheney was predicting eighteen months ago when he said, “I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time.  The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”  If Cheney is not an arrant liar, I don’t know what he is.

I don’t want to try to put any kind of political interpretation on this in respect of the election in 2008.  I can’t see that at this point anything Cheney says or does can inluence that election.

The point that I am making is that it is not at all conceivable that the likelihood of decades of conflict in the Middle East was obvious to me, a lowly mortal who doesn’t even own his own computer, but not to Cheney, with his huge staff of researchers and investigators, and that only in the intervening months was he made aware of it.  Of course there’s going to be conflict in the Middle East for the rest of the century.  That conflict is just Palestine all over again, but in capital letters, as this gang of brigands that we laughably call the administration make plans to take on Iran, Syria and who knows what other countries.

It may look as if Cheney is dismissing with uttermost contempt the wishes of the incoming majority party, showing them that his master is still the boss, but those are only appearances.  The powers that are driving the conflict control both parties, like ventriloquists with an operetta full of little puppets.  Any significant action on the part of the majority party is just a charade, enacted as a placebo for those naive voters who thought their vote was going to bring on some change.  The real powers of course are Israel and Israel’s manipulators in the US government and media.  It’s a national shame that a country of 300,000,000 is being bullied around by a country of 7,000,000 like a gigantic cow led by a child with a piece of string.

This talk of fighting terrorism in Iraq is all a whitewash.  This is a bald-faced landgrab, masterminded by Israel.  The first objective is to eliminate any threats to Israel from Islamic countries by sending Americans over there to die for Zion.  Once the Levant has been pacified in a pool of blood, Jewish expansionism will be set in motion.  This may take 20, 30 or 40 years, as Cheney predicts, or more probably a century.

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About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far.

I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents.

Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com

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