Where's the Oil?
I was watching the trial of Saddam Hussein this week reminiscing over all that has happened over the last few years. Thinking back to the tragic day when the twin towers fell when this all began, when president Bush gave his "and the people who knocked these buildings down...." speech. Then my mind drifted steadily away to when we first invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq, remembering when we first heard that Saddam had been captured by our armed forces in the mountains, wasn't that exiting? Then my mind shifted away again to the 04 presidential election, Oh what fun that was of course Bush beat that imbecile Kerry in a landslide which some are still in denial about.
So while all this was going on in my head I suddenly started wondering where the oil? I mean isn't that why we went to war in the first place? The evil George Bush was going to kill all the innocent people just so he could steal oil out from right under there nose. Well if that was the reason then where is it? Now I suspect that some of the more militant liberals out there would say that Bush probably just took all of it and stuffed it in his own pocket laughing all the way down the road while the American people suffer under high gas prices. But to some of the more logical thinkers out there who think that maybe just maybe Bush didn't go to war for oil but for (heaven forbid) the reason he said he did i would encourage you to look into it further and see what you find.
I guess well just have to wait and see because no matter how much evidence there is that Bush didn't lie there will always be those who will believe that Bush is the Scum of the earth. So i Guess I will leave you with the words of literary character Sherlock Holmes- "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, However Improbable, must be the truth".
posted by oracle25 @ 1:54 PM
12 Comments:
You really are the new Matt Drudge.
Thak you.
OH FRICK! I was going to delete my other blog today, but I accidentally deleted my main one! I am blogless, well just check my profile in your comments every so often to see if I had a new one.
Dude, that sucks. Not only do you have to creat a new blog but I have to change the link on mine! By the way did you chek out my new blog yet?
Go to http://postreport.blogspot.com
It amazes me that so many people accuse those who disagree with them of sticking their heads in the sand or otherwise being ignorant. Perhaps you should read something about "peak oil". Also read evidences for global warming published by independent scholars and professional observers and researchers. It is not necessary that you change your opinion or that you reach a differing conclusion from others. But it is necessary that you weigh and not reject evidence that may be disagreeable to your position.
By the way, why do so many people give thanks to the Lord for ssuch a bountiful earth and then squander those resources on vain (serving no good or useful purpose)consumption? Don't they realize that in an economic sense, to appreciate something means to increase its value or improve it, not waste it.
To answer your first comment, I do not ignore evidence that controdicts me I dissprove it, which is not the same thing.
To answer your second question, while it is true that many people do not take as good of care of the earth as they should that does not mean they just go and waste it. The beutiful thing about the earth is that it is to a large extent self healing, I mean look at the earth back in the late 1800's, smoke covered most all of the big city's due to cole burning and other polution and yet because of the earths amazing cleaning system it was able to clear up. This is not say that we played no part in it, we spent billions of dolars to clean up our air and the world is better oday for it.
btw... i ask you... instead of where's the oil, where are the weapons of mass destruction? this was was a pointless war with no link to the al-qaida (still no proof of link). sure saddam was bad but FOCUS on Osama, the guy who shamed our nation
Fusion, go back and look how long the mindless UN gave Saddam to get rid of his weapons. They were there but he moved them. Even your Democrat leaders said so, up to the time when it stopped being convenient for them, even Bill Clinton said it; and they all voted for the war in the Senate.
i dont like the senate. there was never a connection and we never found any weapons. he could've gotten rid of him. yet we wouldnt have believed him and attacked him anyway. in my view its son finishing fathers job of getting oil. and never ever was there a connection. NEVER
This is patently false. If he did get rid of them he could have just showed us. Furthermore, why do you Dems believe every word that comes out of Saddams mouth, but every time Bush speaks he must be lying? I do not get this line of thinking.
"So while all this was going on in my head I suddenly started wondering where the oil? I mean isn't that why we went to war in the first place? The evil George Bush was going to kill all the innocent people just so he could steal oil out from right under there nose."
What you are really asking is whether oil motivated this war. That would be an unequivocal YES.
Here's how those that installed Bush as president received far more than their initial investments:
1. Haliburton has gotten hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure that we bombed out. This was of course known to be a phase of the post-war when Bush and (former Haliburton CEO Cheney) planned the war.
2. As can be seen from the record profits of the Oil co's (big benefactors of both Bush campaigns) VOLATILITY in the oil market (caused by unstable supply) allows oil co's to sell high after buying low. They can wait out temporarily low prices with their huge stores of oil until prices come up, which throughout this war was always within a few days. I have more than doubled my money as an investor in oil co's since the war started.
3. Oil Co's and infrastructure companies are striving to control the spigots of one of the few remaining huge proven oil reserves in the world. Halliburton and Bechtel put in the spigots, and one of the US/Brit oil co's will get the cherry contracts to pump the oil. Why else are we building close to 20 military bases in Iraq, all near oil fields, if not to protect US oil interests?
4. The Bush family has known ties to the Carlyle Group, the most successful private equity group in the world for the last 10 years. Carlyle invested in military and oil immediately after Bush was elected. They have made incredible returns that make the oil co's look like your local Deli! George Bush Sr was a fundraiser/salesman for The Carlyle Group for about 10 years prior to his son's installation.
As alluded to above, Peak Oil is driving geopolitics. You seem to have a good heart, but you have to use your mind to look at the facts.
No, Bush didn't fill up his car with gas, but he and his promoters most surely filled up their bank accounts from this war, while lower class (financially) Americans' blood runs in the Iraqi streets.
This is the same old war profiteering cycle that has always occurred in modern times, even since late 1800's.
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