Is Oil-rich Kazakhstan Also on Bush Hit List

By now, those who have followed the Bush regime with eyes wide open have clearly recognized the regime's modus operandi when it comes to getting want it wants from poor nations who have substantial reserves of oil or natural gas.

STEP 1: Appear to work with the leaders of a "target country" in a friendly manner. For ex., from January, 2001 through early August 2001, Bush schmoozed the Taliban, showering them with millions in aid. And, of course, up until 2001, many of Bush's corporate pals were still trading merrily with Saddam Hussein.

STEP 2: Deliver an outrageous ultimatum and/or set unattainable goals for the government of the target nation. Bush's US rep to negotiations with the Taliban made this threat: Afghanistan could either accept a "carpet of gold" in exchange for helping the US build an oil pipeline across the country or it could resign itself to being buried "under a carpet of bombs." Saddam was given an ultimatum to either produce WMDs (which we all now know he didn't possess) or be invaded.

STEP 3: Declare the target country a "rogue nation," invade and seize (or at least attempt to seize, at the cost of great loss of life), the desired "assets."

Now it appears that Bush is initating the same scheme against Kazakhstan. Could it be that invading Iran seems a little too risky, prompting Bush and co. to turn their attentions to "easier" (i.e., poorer, less developed) pickings?

The first part of the article below from TerraDaily details just how well-endowed with oil Kazakhstan is. Then it details the developng nation's efforts to try to establish good diplomatic relations with the rest of the world. Then, long about paragraph 13, we see the first signs of Bush's Step 1 emerge:

FROM TERRADAILY (two thirds down through article) "Nazarbayev has also been under growing pressure from the Bush administration to work more rapidly to build structures of democracy and political transparency in Kazakhstan. He has responded by launching a National Program of Democratic Reforms to be implemented in two three stages over the next six years between 2006 and 2011.
As part of this program, over the past six months, he has responded by signing decrees establishing new formal processes and public transparency in local government and national executive power, and his Ministry of Justice has produced legislation to develop the practice of trials by jury. He has also announced the reform of the judiciary "as part of the broader democratic reforms," he said in his Sept. 2 speech. Nazarbayev is running for re-election as president in national elections this December.

"However, the Kazakhs want to move more slowly than some pro-democracy activists in the Bush administration want them to. For the Kazakhs, like their neighbors, were alarmed by the violent over throw of President Askar Akayev's government in neighboring Kyrgyzstan and by the violent disturbances in the city of Andijan in Uzbekistan that left several hundred dead. "

http://www.terradaily.com/news/stans-05j.html

I predict that before long, Bush's media shills will be peppering the news with ominous hints of "threats" posed to the "free world" by doings in Kazakhstan. Soon after, Bush will no doubt appear to "confront" the "terrorist-harboring" Kazakh government, setting a deadline for "compliance" with some bogus ultimatum. And of course, after that, we all know what's likely to happen.