It really incenses the mind of a rational human being when attempts are being made to demonstrate that corporate US has waged this unprovoked war against Iraq for benevolent reasons. Does any sane person really expect the world to believe that leading capitalist state driven by large multinationals have suddenly become benign? Why the US has selectively chosen to 'liberate' Iraq rather then Palestine, or Kashmir? I

If the welfare of the Iraqi's was an important factor for the US, why there has been so little effort directed towards restoring the vital public services, which were destroyed by the bombings? Yet the US managed to deploy adequate resources to securing the oil fields.

Now that Iraq is 'freed', why is it a problem for the Anglo-American forces to hand over the responsibility to the UN, since they have met their original well-intended objective? Did the 'free' Iraq gets a choice to say who will be awarded the contracts for reconstruction of their own country? Is it not being handed o­n a plate to the US multinationals (Bechtel)? Perhaps the war of 'liberation' will eventually become a war of 'profit', just like the first Gulf war.

The Iraqis are now paying for the reconstruction of their own country destroyed by foreign forces with their own oil after they have already paid for it with their blood. Politically the US is preparing a former convict (Chalabi) with strong Zionist connections to run Iraq o­n its behalf. The US wants four military bases in 'free' Iraq. What is the need for these bases since the Baathist regime has collapsed? Does it give us hint about the future US intention to remove the much discredited Saudi and the Gulf regimes with the same leverages of democracy?

Despite all this, the US continues to deny any aspiration to colonise Iraq. Much of this denial is under the veil of defining 'colonialism' as was practiced by the British. Now that we live in an era of neo-colonialism, direct occupation has been replaced with more subtle methods. Create a government with a friendly native faces who will dance to your commands, in return for securing their privileges, as the ruling family in Saudi, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and Afghanistan have demonstrated.