So, President Bush took a little longer to design a new U.S. policy in Iraq, but as he crafts a new plan with the new year it’ll be all new officials to take care of old Iraq. There will be a new head of US Central Command and a new ground commander.
The White House and Pentagon have not confirmed the changes but administration officials and US media have said there will be some changes:
* Adm William Fallon to replace Gen John Abizaid as head of Central Command for Iraq and Afghanistan
* Lt Gen David Petraeus to take over from Gen George Casey as the leading ground commander in Iraq
* US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad to replace John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN
* Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Pakistan, to replace Mr. Khalilzad in Baghdad
* John Negroponte to move from director of national intelligence to deputy secretary of state
* Retired vice admiral and intelligence official Michael McConnell to replace Mr. Negroponte.
However, all this is none of our concern that who will take care of Iraq but will it make any difference.
With the policies and plans cooked up in D.C., the stage is again set for foreign multinationals to assume effective control of as much as 87 percent of Iraq’s oil. To complete the rip-off, the occupying coalition would have to crush Iraqi resistance, make sure it had friendly people in the right places in Iraq’s emerging elite and lock the new Iraqi government onto a path that would lead to the Big Player’s desired outcome. And to make sure all this happens the desired way, the new strategy could also mean a deployment of 20,000 fresh troops to be stationed mostly in and around Baghdad with the intention of disarming the militia groups there.
Via: BBC
