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Blood For Oil

A Crude Case for War? – washingtonpost.com
Five years after the United States invaded Iraq, plenty of people believe that the war was waged chiefly to secure U.S. petroleum supplies and to make Iraq safe — and lucrative — for the U.S. oil industry.

“Plenty of people”? Make that “Everyone with at least half a brain who’s given it even the smallest amount of thought.” The ironic part is that Bush and his cronies, in their amazing incompetence, have rendered Iraq even less safe than it was before the invasion.

Way to go, Bushie!

What a fuckwit. God, how I hate that man. Truly, my disgust with Bush — and with the politicians who have preceded him back to when it was first shown that our petroleum-based culture is killing our planet — my disgust, it knows no bounds. The older I get, the angrier I get. The best thing that could happen for this planet would be if all the humans went away. Maybe that’s why I enjoy apocalyptic science fiction so much… it gives me pleasant daydreams where it’s just me, a handful of intelligent and kind companions, and a big vegetable garden.

The movie Beneath the Planet of the Apes was on yesterday. I love that movie. Sure, the gorillas are kind of thuggish but, overall, they apes seem to have it figured out pretty well.

Anyway. In this Washington Post article, Steven Mufson presents the argument made by some scholars that the Iraq war was really less about oil than about America securing a position of power in the Middle East. But why bother with the Middle East except because of its oil?

No matter which way you cut, the reason for the war is oil.