RE: British lawmaker: Ira
Well there is the whole cult of rapture people, but they're even scarier than being murdered for oil...
Well there is the whole cult of rapture people, but they're even scarier than being murdered for oil...
British lawmaker: Iraq war was for oil
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Have you seen the same people say the war is for oil revenue to America and at the same time say American fiscal policy of spending a lot of money on this war from taxes and not oil revenue is bankrupting America?
RE: British lawmaker: Ira
The two aren't mutually exclusive, Jimmy. You have to stop looking at oil as something to make your car run. Oil has been, since WWI, the main concern when it comes to various kinds of international diddling. Oil runs war machines and even if you have enough for your own, you want to be in a position to keep the other guy from having enough for his.
It is also the driving force in the global economy, which is really what those war macines are there to quibble over anyway.
That's what makes it so laughable when somebody tries to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq by saying that the price of gas still went up...it's a stupid statement. Nobody cares what it costs, they care who controls it.
The two aren't mutually exclusive, Jimmy. You have to stop looking at oil as something to make your car run. Oil has been, since WWI, the main concern when it comes to various kinds of international diddling. Oil runs war machines and even if you have enough for your own, you want to be in a position to keep the other guy from having enough for his.
It is also the driving force in the global economy, which is really what those war macines are there to quibble over anyway.
That's what makes it so laughable when somebody tries to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq by saying that the price of gas still went up...it's a stupid statement. Nobody cares what it costs, they care who controls it.
Well now you're getting somewhere with that point, Reverend Blair. Did you see a slow movement from personal gain to the game of strategic geopolitics in which all nations play for their own self interest. Perhaps France Germany and Russia no longer have their own personal Saudi Arabia? Such a bargain was possible for them.
RE: British lawmaker: Ira
Ah, but personal, or at least corporate, gain always plays a roll. Remember Vietnam? Not a war for oil right?
Except there had been a shelf just off the coast diagnosed (like cancer) to have oil. Off-shore drilling was new and soundings were done with explosives. How do you think the US government kept the corporate money boys happy? Planes coming back to the carriers dropped their ordinance before landing. That provided cover for the oil companies to take soundings.
Oil didn't cause that war, but it played a part.
Now transfer a war to the Middle East. Corporate boys like that for a whole other reason.
Are Russia and China and France just as bad? In many ways, but they never launched an illegal war.
Ah, but personal, or at least corporate, gain always plays a roll. Remember Vietnam? Not a war for oil right?
Except there had been a shelf just off the coast diagnosed (like cancer) to have oil. Off-shore drilling was new and soundings were done with explosives. How do you think the US government kept the corporate money boys happy? Planes coming back to the carriers dropped their ordinance before landing. That provided cover for the oil companies to take soundings.
Oil didn't cause that war, but it played a part.
Now transfer a war to the Middle East. Corporate boys like that for a whole other reason.
Are Russia and China and France just as bad? In many ways, but they never launched an illegal war.
I will always grant you your passion for justice, especially your case against Bush.
Perhaps a division of labor?
Perhaps a division of labor?
Most of the bias on this board assumes a lot of what others do to be less harmless than the American pariah.
RE: British lawmaker: Ira
Most of the perceived bias on this board is a growing consensus that killing for profit is wrong.
Most of the perceived bias on this board is a growing consensus that killing for profit is wrong.