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Privatise this war! http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,929421,00.html

John O'Farrell Friday April 4, 2003 The Guardian

The following article is reprinted from the journal of the Washington Freedom Association, which has been hugely influential in shaping George Bush's foreign policy due to its uncompromising far-right Republican outlook in easy-to-read large print. The war is now two weeks old and it seems incredible to many of us on Capitol Hill that Saddam Hussein has not yet surrendered. Has his translator not explained to him exactly what George Bush said? That "Baghdad will endure bombardmentalisation". That "the Iraqi people must be freed from this tyrannosaurus regime". What bit of "non-conditional capitulisation" does Saddam not understand?

The Washington Freedom Association is of the opinion that our foreign policy and the principles of free enterprise must go hand in hand. Yet we are permitting this war to be pursued by federal government instead of outsourcing the operation to American private companies. War pursued by central government necessitates higher levels of federal taxation and is thus incompatible with the very freedom for which American service personnel are risking their lives.

"Free enterprise warfare" would not only result in an army unfettered by federal bureaucracy, but by fielding an army employed by a US corporation rather than a nation state, troops would not be impeded by excessive petty international regulations such as the Geneva convention.

A number of private companies have put in tenders to the state department to take over the running of the Iraq war. Our finest supermarkets already have large supplies of guns and ammunition on their shelves; Exxon has extensive experience in laying waste to large areas of countryside; Enron is looking for new spheres of influence; and there are many more companies that so enthusiastically share the president's vision of freedom that they contributed to his election campaign.

To pilot the idea of "free market forces", a small squadron of privatised vehicle immobilisers from the Bronx was dispatched to secure strategic bases in Iraq. Admittedly, early reports of this operation were disappointing. Although a number of key bridges, power stations, etc were neutralised, it seems the clampers were destroying infrastructure in the wrong country. Reports from Iran indicate that significant levels of hostility were provoked. However, the former traffic officers were then able to bring all their experience to bear, refusing to enter into dialogue or even make eye contact with the so-called "victims", impassively filling out their paperwork before handing them a form explaining how to appeal against allegedly erroneous carpet bombing.

Teething problems are to be expected, of course, but by outsourcing military operations the secretary of defence will be freed up to concentrate on the more appropriate diplomatic work of central government, extending full spectrum dominance across the globe.

It is not sufficient that the UN has been sidelined while there remain countless international organisations operating independently of American interests and security. It has come to our attention, for example, that every four years an event known as the "soccer world cup" takes place, in which American teams have been denied the freedom to field a team reflecting superior economic and military strength. Instead, Fifa has unilaterally decided that the US may only field 11 players; the same number permitted to third world countries such as Brazil and France.

Like the UN, Fifa cannot be permitted to dictate the rules of engagement where American participants are involved, and English president Toby Blare has promised he will back a rule change permitting a quarter of a million US soccer players on the field at any one time. Similarly, the Miss World competition will no longer be permitted to allow winners from non-compliant nation states. France will only be allowed to enter a man.

This will be a world in which opponents of liberty will be rendered inoperable. Enemies of free speech will be silenced. Iraq will be just the first country to benefit from the opportunity of reconstruction by US companies. Saddam knows that our democratic ideals will not permit us to see his son installed as Iraqi leader. George Bush is against this and so was George Bush Snr when he was president. He cannot be permitted to cling to power without the democratic backing of his people. Saddam Hussein that is, not George Bush.

· Gary T Bush is the nephew of the president and owns an emergent enterprise opportunity taking over the executions of prisoners in private penitentiaries in Texas and Florida garytbush@executions_r_us.com
 

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