US out of Iraq?

Living in England hasn't provided the escape of American politics that I was expecting. Its been about 4 months since we moved here but there is rarely a day that goes by where I don't read or hear about American politics. Birmingham is a very multi-cultural city. I had never really seen women walking around in burkas before or Indian folk with the bendi on their forehead. Being closer to Iraq and to islamic terrorism in general may be one reason for my inability to escape the decisions of the USA. But more likely is that leaving my country, who's politics I am overly familiar with (and burdoned with), is not something to shrug off. I don't have much of a clue about British governance or democracy. I really don't care to. As Britain prepares to pull out of Iraq, some democrats are pushing for the same but clearly not all. This is the beginning of the Democratic oversight of this war and it is my fear that it will drag on due to the shrinking supply of oil, the warlords who will soon control African oil and the alliance of Venezuela and Iran. Team USA will pay for Iraqi oil with thousands of more US troops dying and injured and 100s of 1000s of Iraqi deaths. So goes the need to fulfill the vast interstate system and competition with China. As the US prepares for a new cold-war with the chinese, oil will remain the hot commodity, as it has since WWI. From Nigeria and Liberia to Bolivia and beyond, this struggle for the world's remaining petroleum will no doubt be bloody and gruesome one. As I recently learned in a module at the University of Birmingham, the fall of the Berlin wall was supposed to usher in an era of stability, income growth and happiness. Instead, the fall of the wall started a new form of civil war, of warlord domination of natural resources such as diamonds and oil and the erection of a new wall, this time in Palestine. Lawyers guns and money as Warren Zevon once said. It was blood in and blood out, get your kinsman some guns and take it. The barbaric face of capitalism and greed showed its true self and the mask of smiles and partnership fell to the floor. American companies have stopped supporting their workers and have abandon their families health insurance plans. The word 'democracy' has lost all meaning and is now used alongside 'freedom' as a way to demand compliance, not cooperation. The horrific situation of the world is not solely on the shoulders of the US, ofcourse. It is in the nature of humanity. It is in the massacre of villages and the abduction of children to use as child soldiers. It is the new barbarism.