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Today, I am going to reveal the shattering of the western alliance and how this has fueled the insurgency in Iraq, where US forces are fighting European proxies representing a return of Iraq to French financial interests.

Once upon a time, when the cold war was hot, the US entered into an alliance with western nations for mutual protection. While many European nations had little love lost for America and viewed it as a sort of simple cowboy, they understood that US forces and technology were the only ones capable of preserving them from being absorbed into the red empire. This led to NATO, a western bloc on the UN Security Council and mutual cooperation to a large degree. However, these nations were never happy being married to a dominating US, with its larger resources, powerbase and population.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the necessity and raison d’etre for the western alliance ceased to exist. No longer did France, Germany, Belgium and Denmark fear the red army rolling in and now the relationship had changed. The US was no longer a protector, but merely a competing economic rival consuming large amounts of resources. With the reunification of Germany and the socialization of eastern Europe, western Europe had its hands full. The conversion to a single currency, the Euro, consolidated the wealth by stripping some of it from rich industrial nations like Germany and spreading it to less productive European nations with little Gross National Product to speak of.

France, is the star of this story.

France at one time had an empire. It included much of Africa, Vietnam (or Indochina as it used to be called) and the Middle East. It used to include part of the Americas and India as well. However, French military power was not up to sustaining its hold on these imperialist conquests and the natives revolted. The French empire asked assistance from the US in Vietnam as communist forces accelerated dissatisfaction with portions of the Vietnamese for living as a French colony, the French withdrew and the US got involved in the Vietnam war and protecting the western-minded south Vietnamese.

After the close of the second World War, the French empire was collapsing rapidly. It lost Indochina, in Africa revolt after revolt slowly dismantled the French stranglehold on most of Northern and Central Africa. In 1960 the African colonies were freed of their bonds with France.

However, the French still held much influence in these regions. Refugees and their offspring from the French-Algerian conflict now constitute a good portion of the French population. Most of these are Muslims and the French, as a result have been especially aligned with Muslims and had access to many Middle Eastern nations because of these French-Muslim ties.

In the middle east the French and British empires competed for alliances with these oil bearing regions. Before 1900 these regions meant little, economically, asides for imports of spices, textiles and cheap labor. However the motorcar, ships and planes made oil the new VIP of commodities. The British had deals with Iraq and Iran. The US had developed and equipped the Saudi tribal horsemen with the means to extract their oil and the US has been obliged to protect, in some manner, the Saudi held fields ever since.

In these days, deals were made with insurgents to oust their competitors and gain access to the wealth. When the Ayatollah Khomeni was ousted from exile in Iraq, he left for France in 1978. A year later he was in power in Iran and the Shah was on the run - and US & British interests with him. Not surprisingly, the Iraq-Iran war commenced a year later after the Ayatollah took over. If we look behind the scenes of this period we see how the French have constantly muscled in on US and British aligned interests.

Iranian petrochemical fields had been set up by British and in 1941 when the Nazis tried to sponsor a coup, the British poured in to prevent the loss of the oil field to the Axis powers. In 1951 a brief period of anti-western sentiment encouraged the Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, to nationalize the oil fields and lessen British influence. The British were upset, withdrew all technical assistance and were declared an enemy of Iran and Iran cut all relations. The British asked the US to counter this Sharia-driven Muslim push against the west and the US aided in restoring the Shah to power.

Naturally, the US & British influence in Iran was an anathema to France and when they could empower the Ayatollah Khomeni, Germany and France saw a wonderful opportunity to establish a new financial empire in Iran at the expense of the British and the US. The French went to work quickly and after the UN sponsored truce between Iraq/Iran - France has been very busy increasing their corporate interests in Iran. This hasn‘t slowed a bit regardless of the anti-western stance and illegal nuclear activities of the current Iranian regime:

French Corporate Interests in Iran keep Growing

Iraq under Saddam, after the gulf war, opened the floodgates to France, German and later Russian corporate and national interests. Even the French UN Ambassador was on Saddam’s payroll as France used the UN Oil for Food program to smuggle oil at obscenely low prices and insure that France, Germany, Belgium and Russia were in Saddam’s corner against the United States and the UK from 1991 forward. The Volcker reports on the extent of the corruption. Millions barrels of oil were given to Russia’s Liberal Democratic party leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky to sell for profit. Think about that. Saddam was willing to give away hundreds of millions of dollars worth of oil just to insure he had Russia in his corner. So now Iraq had played portions of the west and a newly capitalistic Russia against itself in a savvy preservation ploy exploiting these nations greed. It is estimated that France was earning up to 50 billion dollars worth of income in oil and contracts from Saddam’s regime. TotalFinaElf the newly nationalized French petroleum corporation had been developing Saddam’s oil fields for six years from 1993-1999. After 9-11-2001 and the US refocusing on the Middle East and anti-US personalities who sponsored terror, France did everything possible to prevent the US removing Saddam Hussein from power. He was their benefactor and his regime brought in billions of dollars to France, Belgium and Germany. When it appeared there was no way to dissuade George Bush, he became public enemy #1and the French sent emissaries to any and all potential groups that may come to power in an effort to keep their multi-billion dollar Iraq income intact:

France panics.

It’s fascinating to read the article above now, in the light of what has been revealed in the Volcker report. This little segment here tells the whole story:

But France takes seriously the threat that the special relationship may end. In the past few weeks, French diplomats paid a visit to a key member of one of the main exiled Iraqi opposition groups asking for the country's business interests to be respected in case of regime change, a member of the Iraqi opposition told Dow Jones Newswires. "They were worried. They inquired about what position they would have in terms of business and trade, including but not only, for oil," the opposition source said.

French Foreign Office spokesman Francois Rivasseau said diplomats had routine meetings with Shiite and Kurdish opposition groups, but he added he wasn't aware of any business issues being discussed.

Fast forward to 2005. France is ticked off. The new government is now aligned with Britain and the United States. Billions upon billions of dollars of income are lost. As mentioned above they cuddle up to Iran to make up a portion of the loss.

But did TotalFinaElf and France really give up on Iraq? After all those decades of nurturing relations with Saddam? After pursuing corruption via the UN and using all means possible to keep the gravy train rolling, it seems unlikely that they have given up on Iraq. The current Shiite-weighted government is not aligned with France or Germany and has been targeted by Sunni insurgents. These Sunni folks had close ties to France and obviously many are under the impression that a US withdrawal will lead, not to a Shiite led slaughter of Sunni cities and villages, but to restoration of power. It is hard not to imagine that some discussions have taken place that would encourage these folks to assassinate leaders of the new government, blow up police recruits and set up explosive devices alongside US convoy routes. France, Germany, Russia and Belgium have never sent troops to aid in keeping peace in Iraq. When the average US citizen understands their multi-billion dollar a year motive to see the present government overthrown and the insurgents brought to power one knows why they have never contributed to any peacekeeping force. French and German media interests have, not surprisingly been rooting for US failure, civil war and trying to create a sense that the US removal of Saddam was illegal and unjustified.

When one reviews France's unprecedented illicit financial gains under Saddam's regime, it is plain to see, that if they could manage it, France would surely have removed any evidence of weapons of mass destruction, just as they used the UN to protect Saddam’s activities from global exposure - clearly France had no problem doing anything illegal in the name of preserving their income.

This is an eye-opener for the average American. Most of the world has assumed that Saddam would never have had help from the west in concealing his WMD program. After this expose, hopefully the world will see otherwise - that many western nations were doing everything and anything to keep Saddam in power and at the same time thwart the US.

And if they were trying to thwart the US for over a decade, why should we expect they have stopped now? Anyone paying attention to content the media giants of France and Germany churn out about Iraq makes it plain as day to see they are actively seeking US withdrawal and the downfall of the present government. But what else are they willing to do? How far is France willing to go to see the US withdraw?

In Chad, France’s TotalFinaElf, United States owned Exxon and the Malaysian giant Petronas were working the oil fields side by side. The President of Chad recently announced that Exxon and Petronas had to leave within days for failure to pay taxes. Those familiar with this situation understand how France has made another move in Africa against US interests. France is waging a proxy-war against the new government in Iraq and, in various manners, against US interests all over the world.

This is what the shattering of the western alliance is all about. It is about the west divided against itself and the manifestation of 21st century European colonialism in the Middle East and Africa. The United States has saved France twice from conquest in the twentieth century, but that is long forgotten and the France now acts in much the same way as the former USSR did in regards to the US - taking the actions and political stance of an enemy.

When I realized how many Americans are unaware of these behind-the-scenes machinations, and as we approach an important US election that is being touted as a referendum on Iraq, I thought it wise to bring this big picture outlook to the American public. The quagmire in Iraq is not just sectarian violence, or a clash between the Muslim world and the west as the media has spent years depicting it, but Iraq is really the first anti-US conflict being waged, in proxy, by France, Belgium, Germany and Russia against the United States and the UK. This translates into anti-Republican drives by the foreign owned media, in an effort to secure Democrats into power in Congress and expedite US withdrawal from Iraq. Many on the political left succumb to anti-US propaganda and fail to recognize who really stands to gain if the US stands down. Democrat politicians simply exploit the foreign media, Iraq-quagmire propaganda push for their own power grab. Which is a disservice to both US citizens and Iraqis.

In the 21st century, the US citizen has a responsibility to become educated about the interests and threats to the United States. In truth, Al Qaeda is a minor threat next to the hungry global appetites of our former cold war allies.