Riz Khan - Is Iraq becoming a US colony? - 24 June 08 Part 1

[mattresslut]

Iraq is now a permanent U.S. colony, the Gov't installed itself as permanently as possible to facilitate and protect corporate interests. Interests that have no allegiance to any one or thing except its own profit. Hopefully, people who are irate about the taxpayers footing the bill and complaning about getting paid back, aren't holding their breath. Listen: you are NOT getting reimbursed; this was a sacrifice that was made on your part for the benefit of the business interests we represent.

[TheITRATE]

yes it is like Balkan is.

[Borat911]

I thought the war was for the safety of the iraqi people ... NOT !

[aviomaster]

Is Iraq becoming a US colony?

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Dumbest question I have heard ,,, IRAQ become USA colony in 2003 when they invaded it ,,,

[Kane9378]

If we the U.S. leave Iraq it will become even more Corrupt. Like we've seen in Africa. Leaving a developing country is the worst thing we can do. We must stay and make sure Iraq developes right.

[scholtestom]

@Kane9378 and also don't forget your fucking oil!!! your governement sucks its fucking propaganda ass shit. you live in a fake democracy!! wake up don't you see that usa is brainwashing americans??? omg no wonder why everybody call americans as dumbest nation ever existed on earth... btw sorry for my english.

[an1792]

the man who is talking from US is simply takes his orders from Cheney

[babybluejean]

Oh but the big oil companies are getting richer all the time especially cheney

[chrisg0906]

iraq will be part of the empire and it will soon be a colony of the u.s.a

[dragonrasp]

Everyone needs to relax. The huge document mentioned about the South Korean "occupation" amounts to 50,000 US troops at the frontline between North and South Korea. South Korea has 1 million troops. North Korea has 2 million. The American forces there are nicknamed "The Speedbump." As all they would be able to do is slightly slow down the North Koreans if it came to war.

Unrestricted airspace access is so they don't have to get permission 1st to use jets in a crisis. Patiently rebuild like Japan

[QDM2]

They day Saudi Arabia is toppled, history will show you destiny. The world will change! Haggling over increase production of 1/2m barrels what if u loses 21m every day! Ask the common Saudis what they think of the king. Even foreigners who live in Saudi know they r extremely hated. Invade Saudi most fighters going to Iraq come from there, but u r not widely told this. More than 2/3 proven reserves under the Middle East. Nice little destiny to hatch, an inevitability, that predicates invasions.

[QDM2]

When SAd was nt a willing bastard then he was a danger. Terror! u've invaded more countries and topple mre regimes in100 years. then any other country.You are hated so much,many plan your doom,from many facets of life.They r everywhere. and they will come at you with anything the can use and they will not stop. Your weapons do not deter, death is not a deterent for revenge. under a UN agreement iraq gets 7p out of every barrel. dependant on it u cant do without it. from their u'r doom will come.

[QDM2]

who supported, armed saddam before USA, UK, the first country to gas iraqis, the british 1946 p.s was illegal then under the Geneva convention. US Amercian history its a shame that the only history most of them know.

[QDM2]

fact.

The usa drew up plans to even invade Saudi Arabia during the Arab Israeli conflict 1973, when the then president threaten to invade because of the oil crisis. Paranoia, who keeps 1 billion barrels of reserves since that time? .

[punjab1b0y]

Oil, oil, oil ! Its all about oil. Without oil USA is powerless. I wish the oil bearing powers in the world had more guts to stand up to the USA bullies. The USA suck up to the arabs for this reason. USA will murder and have murdered muslims for oil and our leaders have helped them.

The middle-east could rule the world through oil. But unfortunately god did not give them brains when he bestowed them with oil.

They will be punished in the hereafter - inshallah.

[pronk89]

oil my ass. if we wanted oil so bad, we'd drill that shit ourselves, but the liberals are all "wah wah the environment wah."

im sorry, but your precious oil is not worth the billions the war in iraq is costing us right now. even if we had some sort of control over the output, we wouldn't even be able to pay the interest on our debt.

so no, sorry. it wouldn't make sense for us to fight over oil, because the costs outweigh the benefits. shove it.

[Commit777]

If we really invaded Iraq because we were oil hungry, why haven't we drilled for oil right on our own soil, you idiot? And if we went to Iraq for oil, our prices would be lower, intead of now(record high prices for us.) You would know this if you were even educated about the law of Supply and Demand. I'm 15 years old by the way.

[ott67]

ok please tell me why we are in Iraq. Just a brief explanation. Can you do that for me???

[punjab1b0y]

Sounds like your a naive 15 year old by your idiotic response. Your government have in the past declared that they would attack oil rich countries if supplies were stopped/not met. If thats not oil greed then what is. It looks like you don't know your own countrys politics. Go and learn the truth. To fulfill one of the largest polluting countries in the world the US many have had to die and will die under the pretence of terrorism. Even your own produced a film Farenheit 9/11 about the truth.

[iceisnice61]

and your idiotic post proves it. Get an education.

[lordblazer]

welly ou have to understand that the current market prices are artificially inflated. yOu leave out monetary problems also. The US dollar is dropping in value, and this also contributes to rising oil prices. It isn't about the oil companies though they are profiting. It is about the contracting companies, and corporations that profit from war. We have a well oiled war machine that keeps the money coming in and the people will never see this money but we pay for them to get it for them.

[shahid7s]

انت عار على العالم ، يجب ان تكون العدالة واجتمع وازالة جميع الجنود الاميركيين من العراق

[bkmalone86]

Why the US needs to be able to conduct operations without informing the Iraqi government: Corruption. Whatever we tell the Iraqi government we matter as well tell CNN.

Why the US needs to control Iraqi airspace:

.... BECAUSE IRAQ HAS NO AIR FORCE (anymore)

[JJJadm]

he is right,what have we achieved after five years?noting,just so many people dead,america bankrupty and iraquis killing each other,the best thing is to bring our soldiers home,and give them a chance to fix their goverment.

[Templarspartan]

example of what's going on in iraq

look at west germany after ww2

[aghneyya]

Bullshit. Everyone knows that the US is in Iraq at least partly for oil. The whole country needs to be stable to protect the oil supplies; otherwise, the resistance to US policy will spill over into the oil regions. Plus, as others have point out, there is also oil is hot spots like Mosul. Iraq has some of the world's most important oil reserves, alongside Canada and the Saudis.

But of course, it's more than oil, too.

[Shaft2009]

US's involvement in Iraq has always been out of the desire to benefit from Iraqi resources. There is no doubt that the US would like to rip-off the fruits of its work of demolishing the Saddam Regime. I think America deserves to benefit from Iraq resorces for they have paid in blood and treasure. As of today, America's treasure is the one that is standing Iraqi economy, hence it must be repaid with interest.

[bkmalone86]

It would probably benefit us enough if the oil from Iraq was put out on the market without interference from terrorism. We wouldn't really need to "steal" oil. But at the same time I think it is fair that the Iraqi government should at least match the money we are spending on reconstruction (if they arn't already I don't really know). As far as payback goes... if the government would just straighten out it's own corruption and get the democtratic process going, that would be good enough for me.

[RobNC86]

The fact that this is even a debate says a lot about the misinformation given via western media. Debates about things such as legality and morality of this war are becoming futile, there needs to be serious international pressure put on US for a troop withdrawal. If US continue this campaign of terror by attacking Iran then the rest of the west should treat US like an outlaw state and cut all ties with country. This may seem severe but if the situation cannot be resolved within US it is only way

[electango]

Anyone who thinks the US is going to withdraw from Iraq is hallucinating. President Obama will not withdraw US troops. The US has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and suffered thousands of casualties and deaths in Iraq and it is going to force Iraq to foot the bill just as it did in Germany and Japan (&Britain) in 1946. Liberation is expensive.

[Unkn0wnGuy]

The guy from London is right. Throw the bums out.

[EsotericDesi]

Noam Chomsky predicted this back in 2002-2003 that America will occupy Iraq and never invade it... because it's going there to control 15% of the world's oil supply... which will give it, as Chomsky called it, "The Veto Power," on almost all global issues. Oil is not in just Basra, it's also in far north, in Kirkuk and Mosul, and in the Western parts also.

[lastnymleft]

Why not just take Basra, and make it obvious that they want the oil?

You just watched the reason: to be able to pose questions like this, and muddy the waters, creating space for doubt that it is about oil, and to therefore give them the opportunity to claim that it is for the benefit of the Iraqis.

Plus, by taking over everything, they get to make the decision in what the oil is denominated in: USD only, and no longer the Euro Saddam that switched them over to.

That Al Janabi is a US shill.

[MementoExpose]

The guy in Boston should make it clear that he's speaking on behalf of the American government and NOT on behalf of Iraq. I agree with al-Tikriti, well said bro.

[MementoExpose]

The guy in Boston shouldn't pretend that he's speaking on behalf of Iraq or the Iraqi people because he works with the American government now, he's on their side. He doesn't care about Iraq's interests, he cares about America's interests. He's American not Iraqi.

[electango]

Did the United States invade Iraq, suffer thousands of casualties amongst her troops (including 4000+ deaths), and spend hundreds of billions of treasure out of the goodness of her heart? Of course not. Iraq is now a US colony and the United States will now suck Iraq dry in order to pay for Iraq's liberation.

[MementoExpose]

Is Iraq becoming a US colony?

NEVER.

[ogjimkenobi]

The US is trying to secure the entire state of Iraq to convince the American people that we are there for democracy.

I'm sure we are there for many reasons but the motivation for securing the entire country of Iraq is largely public opinion related.

[aafaking]

is nazar aljanabi a pakistani or indian? his accent is like a mixture of iraqi and indian.

[bappi11]

i hate to see american colaborators. I wish they all die and rot in hell.

[sugarpuddin88]

It's NOT an American colony

It's a Corporate colony

[dswynne]

That last comment from the anti-US occupation guy is funny. OF COURSE there's going to be problems after the Americans are gone. You think Iran is going to sit by and not take advantage of the situation, as a means of extending its influence?

[xusword]

This is AN ABSURD ACCUSATION!

Iraq will NEVER become a US COLONY!

That is not BUSH'S IRAQ WAR is all about

HE IS A GREAT LIBERATOR OF IRAQ

He saves the Iraqi from Saddam so Iraq can be ruled by the OIL COMPANIES! NOT US government!

[aceone1988]

are you joking or are you just plan stupid

[xusword]

Sigh...

Even if you didn't get the sarcasm, at least read the last line when I mention the oil company...

You have severe ADD or something like that?

Cant even get through a few lines of words?

Sarcasm really loses its meaning if you have to come back and explain about it...

Oil companies are the powerful ones, not US government. The government is merely puppets of oil companies... understand?

[xusword]

Sigh, this is the first time I got so many thumbs down on youtube.

I get it... you cant use sarcasm in Youtube. People wont get it...

[nicholas9999]

xus: lol, "sarcasm really loses its meaning," yeah, takes all the fun out of it!! before I read your comment, I replied to the first comment on here, see if you agree.

[bulluni]

Just reverse roles and see if the US would accept the conditions if it were in Iraq's place?

[nicholas9999]

bull: a good mental exercise!!

[teemuruskeepaa]

Biased report. It implies that Iraq can't expect anything beyond the question of national soveireignty. Of course it will become sovereign in the narrow national sense, the real question is will Iraq have that kind of soveigreinty where it can choose not to trade with the US, or not to have military bases in it's territory. The Americans may attempt to create a unofficial de facto colony, which is not measured in legistrature.

[teemuruskeepaa]

And Al Jazeera tries to fool us into thinking there is no such thing.

[baronmorris]

Al Jazeera provides an important perspective. All perspectives, however, are inherently biased. One must sort the wheat from the chaff.

Peace to all. ;-)

[teemuruskeepaa]

You mean peace in not questioning your opinion. I hate relativism. Everything is relative, but the clishée has taught every lamer to think that there is no causality. It is a horrible fashion of late years. And some opinions really are better than others! And some opinions exist in a priviliged position to manipulate the way the lamers think, so that they can benefit from the ideological bias.

[baronmorris]

I'm not a relativist. I'm a perspicacitist (?)(re: perspicacious)... and an artist... and a scatological eschatologist... etc.

but thanks for playing. ;-)

I agree that all media outlets need scrutiny, criticism, and feedback. but we're really on the same page. all I'm adding is that what is important is not merely the content of the news medium, but one's active and vigilant analysis of that content, taken in with many others. perspicacity.

again, I say

p e a c e to all.

Cheers!

[teemuruskeepaa]

No, you are not taking this video as seriously as you should. You can not celebrate it when it is giving out false information about the reality Iraq faces with the US. It misleads us to think that the problem is something else than total politico-economic independence. It undermines the independence in order to influence all people in the world, so that we would not help the independence of Iraq. Be serious about this.

[nicholas9999]

teem: you can be both right and wrong at the same time. A "biased" report implies some sort of agenda or dishonesty. In fact, the U.S. will have a de facto occupation in Iraq during the oil concessions. I.e., we will need all kinds of security, etc., in order to protect the wells, pipelines, etc. This will go on for 20 years. We essentially did this in Saudi Arabia with Aramco, starting in the 1930's. While we were playing kissy-face with the royal family there, UBL was looking on.

[nicholas9999]

teem: (2) Hard to know what he thought, as the nation with anti-aristocracy as a bedrock principle, aided and abetted the royal fam in preventing a parliament for the people of SA. Now, we intend this in Iraq, a testament to how culturally unaware we are, allowing the world to see oil as a reward for the invasion. The neocon and big oil influences are well-doc'd in the u.s. prep for the war. The whole adventure, a vast message to the world we are liars, cheats, immoral, non-legitimate.