What Does The U.S. Want?

TURKIYE- Columnist Yilmaz Oztuna comments on US ambitions to launch a military operation in Iraq and their underlying reasons. A summary of his column is as follows:
The US, because the dream of a Pax Americana dictates it, wants to be the sole broker in charge of distributing oil and natural gas around the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. And, in order to make its dreams come true, it is acting in cooperation with Great Britain. That is to say, under this plan in the 21st century the US will provides oil to countries such as Germany, France, Italy and Japan. These countries and other similar oil-less ones desperately need the oil extracted from these two large basins, which currently hold two-thirds of the world’s oil resources. Otherwise, their industries will crumble and wither away. Just think for a moment: what if Germany or Japan were to weaken economically and thus politically as well?
The US also wants to keep the US dollar the sole currency in oil purchase all over the globe. Additional, the yen is trying to keep the euro, its chief contender, at bay. The US currently controls the oil of monarchies in the Persian Gulf. However, it lacks the reigns of both Iraq and Iran’s oil resources. Thus, the US wants to establish a pro-US regime in Iraq. Once Saddam Hussein and his administration announce that they have withdrawn from the government, the US will immediately cancel its plans to strike Iraq. Of course the new regime to be established there should act in full cooperation with Washington.
And the Kurds... They are once again acting as tools, just as they were previously in the hands of Great Britain, but this time of the US, and the US intends to take full advantage of this leverage. The US plan will definitely be implemented if the Pax Americana is to hold sway at least through the first half of this century. The US knows very well that this plan may have several dangerous consequences and that the postwar period in Iraq may create serious problems for itself. Yet, the US is willing to run all these risks, the most dangerous being that the terrorist threat may once again rear, spread and gain strength.
The US has intelligence indicating that Iraq and Iran are trying to produce an atomic bomb which would threaten Israel. Thus, there is not even the slightest possibility that the US will not carry through on its plans for Iraq.

SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION