"It was oil, all along"

The truth can hurt and this truth is right on the nose. We have a government that has to be filled with the greatest pirats thatever exsited. Used to be that when a leader used his or her influece to take the homes and livlyhoods from people for personal profit they would be tried for bribery and misuse of public funds.

"If Saddam Hussein had been head of Iraq and there was no oil under those sands our response to him would not have been as strong as it was in the first Gulf war".

If the Iraq war was really about humanitarianism and toppling a dictator, why are we now standing by while Zimbabweans perish?

The US trurns a blind eye to all struggling nations who do not have something our elite class wants.

Look at our non-participation in African affairs. Bush/Chaney/oil companies have spent thousands of times more taxpayer dollars on Iraq than two decades of help fo African nations. Africa needs to find oil before America will help them to any degree.

It was all about oil? No shit. It's embarrassing that only now is the mainstream media acknowledging this. (To be clear, Moyers is an exception - a rare example of a good journalist.)

But unsuspecting Americans are also the culprit of this malady that will eventually take us to the final solution. Americans blindly vote locally (or dont vote) for politicians that only cater to the special interest, IE Developers with cheap overprice housing, full of energy deficient devices. Buying them, under the pretense of quick fortunes and taking long wasteful drives to Wallmarts and KMarts on Sundays because there is no public transportation and very little culture and alternative activities to them. Politicians know full well that those pretensions fuel by your desperate consumerism in search of the ever elusive "Happiness" keeps them in position of power to offer only what you need in exchange for greed.

They know that you are getting fat eating pizza on Saturday nights and cranking your AC or Heater, and therefore catering to the interest of the electric and energy companies. They know that your lack of personality and self esteem drives you to buy bigger cars as if that would be the only reason to exist, so they cater to the local dealerships by plunging more money on roads instead of public transportation.
They also cater to your consumerism under the false pretense of full employment by allowing massive construction of Ugly subdivisions and Commercial centers, diverting money from education and culture into the hands of shameless developers trying to sell you the "American Dream" (More like a nightmare).

In the process killing thousands of species, natural reserves, taxing water beds, local businesses and you guess it (or maybe not) gulping more energy. So the US at work goes into other countries and take what you need so they keep you overweight and stoopid (eating pizza on saturday night) unaware of the rights you have under the constitution you claim to know (if only three or four amendments) with information that feeds your insecurities, by telling you that the world is full of bad guys and bad places and that only "Happy-land" is the place to be, that your decision to buy the biggest house and the grandest car and all those prozac pills and Viagra is protected by the 22th amendment of the constitution so help you god.

So there you have freedom but you dont know what to do with it, "gee I have to use my brain, so I will do it some other day, let me check Spike channel" IF YOU DONT VOTE WE WILL CONTINUE TO GO ON THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF DESPAIR. If people dont DEMAND the changes that are needed and practice restraint in their personal lives, gas not only will be 10 Dlls a gallon you will have no alternative energies, and without that you will have no pizza or TV on Saturday night. If you dont know your rights, they will use them against you. Politicians are prepared, locally or nationally to win your fantasies, but never to cater to your needs.

It is very simple VOTE even if your boss gets mad, inform yourself while you are eating that pizza, listen to different points of view while driving nowhere with your car, READ YOUR CONSTITUTION and understand it. Vote for politicians because the have the know, not because they look good. Do it because if you have sons or daughters in this pivotal moment in history, they may reap the benefits of a greater society globally, or if you dont they may be doom to suffering and extinction.

Bon apetite!

I'd like to hear this from someone reputable.

Bill Moyer, one of the few last truth hitting journalists.Go Bill!

PS: Bill is creditable, no duh...

wow. that was a tremendous video right there. thanks for posting that!

We can only blame ourselves for the madness that is ocurring in our own backyards.

that 911 connection is a very interesting one..though..I hope that had nothing to do with oil..or someone should pay!

Nice addendum: The EPA just put a two-year moratorium on research on solar energy on public lands because it might damage the environment!

http://digg.com/environment/US_halts_solar_energy_proje...

Alan Greenspan. The Age of Turbulence.

everyone knows: The Iraq War is largely about OIL.

Everyone it seems, but those who still value the, Right is Wrong, Crowd, giving them millions of VOTES with
every election.

Try telling them it is largely about the OIL, while
their heads stay covered up in the sand.

How am I not surprised.

you mean this was not a war on terror?...weapons of mass destructio...are we that stupid...or that fearful?,,,that's say it is a lot of both...the reality here is how do americans and polocy makers address this evil...where is the accountability?...how long do we stay wrong?...mother Africa... take heed... you may have the best voice of wisdom to take us out of this mess...nowhere else on the planet for 600 years, has been the most plundered and raped and yet, the most forgiving!

cheney is a dick.

You know.. all I can really say is...
Who here is actually surprised to hear this? Honestly, we all knew all along...

Shell Exxon Mobileand Total have been selected on a NO TENDER BASIS to "assist" the Iraqi government to process and recover oil in Iraq. The government said they were selected because they have given their advice "FREELY" througout the campaign.

I highlight the word FREELY as this is a misnomer when you consider the four thousand plus young warriors killed, countless thousands maimed for life both physically and mentally, unknown thousands of innocent Iraqi men women and children.Lest we forget the three plus trillions of dollars the war has cost to date and the greater threat to society from the militant side of the muslim people