Brass in Pocket: A Chronicle of Blood Money Foretold

Chris Floyd , Empire Burlesque
While looking through the files to find a piece I'd done years back on some of the sleazy business dealings of Bush Regime honchos, I ran across the article below. It was a Moscow Times column that I wrote about Bushist war profiteering in Iraq. Pretty standard fare, you might think – after all, it is now a truth universally acknowledged that the Bush Administration's rapine of Iraq is one of the most gargantuan corruption schemes in human history – but then I noticed the date of the column: October 4, 2002: six months before the first bombs fell.
The point here is not to claim amazing Kreskin-like powers of prophecy for myself – obviously I have none – but to underscore, yet again, how blazingly clear the true nature of this war crime was from the very beginning. Everything I wrote in those days was based upon mainstream news reports and other public information; all of it was easily available to, say, the "liberal hawks" and Democratic leaders and others who now claim that they were hornswoggled by the wily Bush gang, that they are simply gobsmacked that this noble crusade somehow turned into a rampage of murder and loot: "Boy howdy, we never seen that comin'!" These gormless Gomers are either brazen liars or dribbling fools of the highest order – or both. But as Jon Schwarz reminds us, this hasn't prevented them from continuing to dominate the "national debate" about the atrocity in Iraq -- and the coming atrocity in Iran.
Anyway, let's spin this old Global Eye tune from 2002: Brass in Pocket. (Moscow Times, Oct. 4, 2002; links to sources are in the original column.)
We've talked a lot about grand strategy and national purpose in the last few weeks, but now let's leave that rarefied air and get down to what your savvy, no-nonsense operators like Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld would no doubt call, in their jaunty, plain-man jargon, "brass tacks."
Namely: who's going to gobble up the loot from President Pretzel's buggering of Baghdad?
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