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Political Philosophy Disfunction Blocking Democracy in Iraq

Because Iraqi citizens didn't get an intial equal share each of Iraqi oil field ownership, terrorism to control oil ownership seems the current alternative fact.


  • A New Deal for CItizens of Iraq

    One wonders if President Bush can be serious about resolving the post 2003 war national building conflict in Iraq with a traditional disconnect from political realpolitik and preference for high political power to high political power bi-lateral or multi-lateral relations approach hoping to find someone out there that would reflect his own desired political goals satisfactorily.

    Perhaps Nigeria since the end of the military government could be a contemporary model to consider the actual probable social difficulties Iraq will encounter if not as a political simile then perhaps as an approximate paradigm with useful lessons for the U.S. administration’s policy makers.
    Traditionally hierarchical political structures tend to be more anti-democratic than democratic implicitly as a function of the tacit yet unspoken social context in which power is held. In the United States the federal government has tended to be composed of persons serving the most powerful concentrations of wealth, although in recent decades the corporate broadcast media has served as a smokescreen for the owners of government and politics as usual class with tidal waves over the transom of consumer appealing propaganda. The fact that U.S. domestic policy is itself rather undemocratic and leaning to global multi-national corporate policy means that the administration cannot seek a democratic government for Iraq based on sound principals of democracy.
    In Nigeria politics have been corrupted by money from oil, and for the control of money and revenue profit sharing from Nigerian oil including sales to the U.S.A... Violence and bribery are common methods of attainment of local and national political power with the money never reaching the public sector spending it should except after substantial or complete skimming by corrupt politicians. In Iraq various groups are simply fighting for political power with several sectarian, racial, ethnic, cultural and political stratifications into terrorist groupings striving in the absence of a popular democratic ownership of Iraqi oilfields in a ‘new deal’ after the formation of the first post-Baathi Iraqi Government.
    Popular Iraqi civil ownership of the oilfields with perhaps 90% of an initial stock offering given entirely in equal shares to each Iraqi citizen and 10% held for Government financing would provide a level field in democracy for private and free enterprise to commence in long quest t0o a democratic stabilization surpassing that of Nigeria. Too much democracy is considered by U.S. politicians to be a sycophant of global multi-national corporate will, and a U.S. Government serving the interests of the people would be in some way neo-communist or even Castric. That unfortunate pejorative opinion is an indicator of how far toward global post-Mussolini corporatism the neo world order of President 41 Bush has gone. That New World Order of Corporatism may be a partner with communist China for the time being, yet it is fundamentally an irrational, illusory world order with the potential best to undermine the remaining global environmental health best conserved by intelligent and good spirited national democratic governments.
    For Iraq to take a turn toward peace Prime Minister Maliki must urge a new deal for Iraqi oil so all citizens would have a real reason economically to support the national government. The alternative to democracy is Iraq is the usual historical coursed of big power deal cutting, statesmanship designed to benefit certain domestic or global interests financially and local terrorism to control the government that controls oil allocations. Corrupt Iraqi political structures are the hierarchy the President of the United States has supported for Iraq; that violence causing quagmiring cannot be remedied simply by adding a lot of new military and violence to the already increasingly terrorist ‘news’ from Iraq. Violence in a second world nation to take over a government increases as it combusts, like a fire perhaps, dividing Iraq and thereby conquering violence is not either a good approach to creating a democracy in Iraq.

    It isn’t at all to late to take the right steps to create a fair political environment for democracy to grow in Iraq, yet to even hope to reach Nigerian levels of political ‘peace’ nearing a democratic environment, and going beyond that with real public services funded by an honest government along with a polity with an initial fair ownership of oil as citizens of a democracy unobliged to a corrupt ruling class, an actual will to comprehend the political philosophy of democracy and how it differs from corporatism, communism or other forms of partial or total authoritarianism including gangsterism will need to be taken to heart by the Bush administration—maybe an unlikely prospect with its own deep ties to the global oil industry.

    "We're not at the point where the president is going to be in a position to lay out a comprehensive plan,” Stephen Hadley the U.S. National Security Advise reportedly said.

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