As if I didn’t know it. What’s simply amazin’, is how something so obvious can be so muddled, obfuscated, ridiculed and disdained. It was so painfully obvious, as U.S. troops protected the oil ministry, put out the oil fires, and passively looked on while Iraq’s (and all of our) priceless heirlooms were looted in 2003.
But that’s the power of the Emperor in this supposed land of free thinkers. Name one mainstream talking head, one editorial writer in the past six years that has dared make the oil connection. One!
Anyway, the title of this post is also the title of an investigative piece from Public Record by Jason Leopold.
Piece of Mindful 
From these same takling heads I recall a rather constant refrain that “it isn’t about oil.” Charlie Rose on PBS was one of the more persistent oil-funded pitchmen.
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I wish we’d invade our own country to get oil.
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I’d like to tap your reality reserves. Are you fully depleted?
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Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour, Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman, and though I don’t think he realized what he was saying when he said it, Charles Krauthammer.
Dude, you asked …
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Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour you’re going to have to prove to me somehow. Olberman and Maddow and Krugman are not mainstream, and I would be surprised if they did not make the connection.
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Anderson Cooper brought it up when responding to the Bush non-effort at response to Katrina. I’m Gazoogling the video, but my Google fu fails for now. Christiane Amanpour almost got fired because the rightwing fear machine took exception to her coverage of Iraqi refugees, in which she stated that they had fled for the benefit of US oil interests. You can search that one yourself. I suggest you start with Our Lady Of The Concentration Camps, Michelle Malkin.
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Most troubling to me was the loss of Babylonian antiquities and the destruction of future archaeological sites. Valuable art and history bit the literal dust in order to salve the egos of neo-cons and the itchy palms of oil barons. I remember Donald Rumsfeld’s response to criticism about protecting the oil ministry while leaving the antiquities museum in Baghdad unguarded: “Bad things happen in war.” Callous indifference of the ugliest kind!
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‘Few years on back, I was called all sorts of names because I advocated and supported the invasion of Afghanistan. In truth, I wanted President Clinton to invade the damned country in 1998, after the Taliban had destroyed sacred relics that define civilization itself. My thinking on the matter was this: if they are willing to physically destroy the history and culture of the world, they are no better (and much worse) then the Godbag Rapture worshipers whose sole psychotic ideal is to see the rest of us die for the justification of their beliefs.
Given that, I’m certain that you can understand my horror that our own government would engage in the same kind of historical suicide. Antiquities are not a property right. They are the heritage, focus and true evidence of the peoples on this rock. The empire builders pissed on that legacy every bit as much as the Taliban did. I will hate them all my live-long days, if for no other reason than that.
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I share your passion on this. Hating the empire builders and the Taliban all your live-long days seems an appropriate response to these common atrocities. I would consider your hatred a curse on all such fiends from the depths of the soul of this Earth.
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