The Cat's Out Of The Bag

"President Bush marked the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding Sunday by praising colonists' indomitable spirit in the face of disaster and holding up the English settlement as a milestone on the path toward building American democracy," says a Washington Post report datelined Jamestown, Va, May 13 (2007). (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051300412.html)

President Bush is reported to have said further that there are "parallels between the nearly hopeless condition of the settlement's first days and current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan." The report goes on to say,"Jamestown's adventurers set out imagining gold and paradise in the New World, he said. The reality was far more grim................. As the first permanent English settlement, Jamestown planted the seeds of free enterprise, rule by law and representative government, he said. But Bush noted that its legacy has a dark side in the displacement of Native Americans and the enslavement of African Americans."

Doesn't this well and truly reveal the design with which President Bush and the neocons embarked on this Iraq Adventure? To make it their own colony in the image of the United States of America, and effectively lord over the world's oil supply. And if, in this process, the native Iraqis are enslaved or driven out into the neighbouring countries, it is just collateral damage.