Another bloody war for oil?
To the Editor:
In 2016, while running for President, Donald Trump called the Iraq War “stupid.” He was right. Saddam Hussein was a vicious dictator, but the U.S. had no plan for what would happen after he was eliminated. This war was actually fought for control of Iraq’s massive oil deposits. The power vacuum in Iraq was quickly filled by Shia militias friendly to Iran — and even worse by ISIS fanatics who saw an opportunity to carve out their own territory of slavery and murder.
So the Iraq War was stupid. And horrible. How many Americans were killed, wounded by IEDs, or came back with PTSD? And now we have an illegal, undeclared war against Venezuela.
The Venezuelan people may someday throw off a dictatorship — as we did in 1776. That is their right. Maduro was a dictator involved with drug smuggling. But he was mainly involved in cocaine smuggling which almost all went to Europe, and not with the fentanyl that is killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. Less than 5% of drugs entering the United States come from Venezuela.
If Trump really cared about drug cartels, why did he recently pardon Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, who was convicted by an American court of trafficking over 500 tons of cocaine into the United States from 2014 to 2022? Why did Trump pardon a billionaire drug smuggling criminal? Was there something in it for Trump and billionaire investors Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel?
But why Venezuela? Because Trump’s oil industry buddies are eager to control Venezuela’s 300 billion barrel oil reserves — the largest in the world! Money talks!
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Another Iraq disaster in the making? Trump says the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela. Great. The chaos created by Maduro’s kidnapping may be filled by armed gangs or militias allied with Columbian drug cartels, or even by ISIS. If the situation deteriorates, does Trump send our soldiers? Only Congress can declare war, but that’s just the Constitution, which the Trump administration is ignoring — again.
Congressman Edwards and other rubber stamps in Washington — where are you?
Steve Wall
Waynesville
