The quagmire
Julius Cohen
Originally published 02:13 p.m., October 9, 2007
Updated 02:13 p.m., October 9, 2007
The resolution of the Iraq quagmire may well rest on why we went there in the first place.
Before 2000, it was the oil interests with deep financial pockets and the awareness that Bush walked on wobbly legs who chose the staunch Dick Cheney to promote and carry their cause.
Bush was the figurehead. Cheney was to be the real power behind the throne. In the first week after the election, Cheney met with the oil barons. All proceedings were kept secret under the blanket of National Security.
The prize: more oil in Iraq than in Arabia, enough perhaps to indulge us and the barons for the next 40 or 50 years. The challenge was to get it. But how? Use every ruse and trick. Even a war.
But Congress and the American people would never consent. There had to be a massive event on which to build. ...
With oil as the promised collateral, France and Russia had financed Saddam’s war with Iran. The eagerness to collect, consequently, led to mounting pressure to lift the sanctions on Iraq.
We dared not wait lest the coveted prize be lost to us. There was convincing evidence beforehand that WMDs at the time were absent. Tennet was emphatic that 9/11 was not connected to Saddam. It didn’t matter.
Moreover, Iraq oil was supposed to pay for a war and reconstruction. So next time Bush asks for another hundred billion or two hundred billion for Cheney’s war, let’s keep that in mind that everything you own is worth 30 percent less since the start of the conflict.
The solution for Iraq? Share the oil with the French, Chinese and Russians. Their intervention will send Iran into retreat and prevent a conflagration.
But Cheney will never let go and Bush, like a good little boy, will do as he is told to keep things going as they are while screaming “Disaster!” if we do otherwise.
outsidethebox (anonymous) says...
Very well put.
October 9, 2007 at 4:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
open_eyes (anonymous) says...
LMAO
October 9, 2007 at 4:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
EuthanizeEmporia (anonymous) says...
Who writes this crap?
October 9, 2007 at 4:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
shoehorn (anonymous) says...
Big oil put George Bush in office? I suppose you believe they bought all the votes, too. Brilliant! Let me know when it comes out in paperback.
October 9, 2007 at 5:06 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
MelissaE (anonymous) says...
Uh, if you don't think the oil companies put GWB in office, you should do some research (and that's not directed at anyone in particular).
So, apparently, I agree with GreenDay, OpenEyes and outsidethebox.
M
October 9, 2007 at 8:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
open_eyes (anonymous) says...
Still LMAO.
We have been SOOOO mislead by the media. They keep printing stories about how the Kurds, Shiites and Sunni's can't agree on how to divide the oil revenues, and the truth is, they're not getting any of it, it's all going directly to Bush and his cronies!!! They've installed a secret underground pipeline ad they're sucking the country dry right under everyone's noses!!! ROFL
October 10, 2007 at 8:34 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
open_eyes (anonymous) says...
Ok, I did some research.
Yes, and he was also elected by agri-business, Health, civil servents, construction, and transportation, to name a few. While Kerry was attempted to be put in office by lawyers (those people we ALL trust completely)
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoli...
Hillary, again, relies mostly on the same people we ALL trust, those wonderful lawyers again:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politician...
Except for a few exceptions....
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel...
And, of course, her husband was elected by the Chinese, who always have the best interests of the USA at heart... :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Uni...
I'm still searching for a candidate in the last 200+ years who's campaign was financed solely by the little man on the street, with no lobby or special interest groups or big businesses, but so far I'm not having much luck....
Not having much luck trying to find out how much oil from Iraq is going straight into Bush & his buddies pockets, either, but I'm still looking. Maybe I'll give up on the internet and pick up a copy of the National Enquirer...
This was one of the funniest articles I've seen in a long time. How come it wasn't in the comics section, along with the controlled detonations of the Towers, and the 1969 moon landing being filmed in Arizona?
October 10, 2007 at 10:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
shoehorn (anonymous) says...
Darn! I forgot about the moon landing! They even made a movie about it, and that was a long time before Mr. Moore and Mr. Gore got into the entertainment industry!
October 10, 2007 at 6:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )