Goodbye Iraq, Hello Afghanistan By Pepe Escobar

Goodbye Iraq, Hello Afghanistan By Pepe Escobar: "Baghdad - which accounts for 25% of the country's population - has virtually no water or electricity. The Americans for their part may have become more 'invisible', retreating from main urban centers, but their air war is even more devastating. The White House/Pentagon policy is now a 'back to the future' of turning Iraq into Afghanistan, where warlords, religious or secular, and tribal sheikhs defend their mini-states armed to their teeth, and criminal gangs run parallel to death squads. There isn't a remote possibility of forging a government of national unity under these circumstances.

Which suits Washington fine. The only way for the United States to prolong its Iraqi adventure is to perpetuate chaos; Iraq as the new Afghanistan. Few dispute that the US invaded Iraq for its oil resources, mostly untapped, and that it's located in the heart of the world's energy system. Thus, if the US controls Iraq, it extends its strategic power."

And by deceit we shall wage war... now where have I heard that before?