""Americans work for BP, and Americans have investment in BP for their retirement, just as millions of people around the world.
BP is not being "attacked". BP is RESPONSIBLE for a disaster and is being held responsible for what they have done.""

Yes Alice, BP is responsible, and accepted that responsibility long before American politicians started talking about "kicking ass".

Can you explain what you find useful in the idea of whipping a horse that is already going in the direction you want, at the best pace of which it is capable.

When RB started this thread I thought he was being paranoid, but there is one thing about which he is indubitably correct.

Your politicians and your news media are accentuating the "British" Petroleum increasingly, and it simply cannot be passed off as accidental.

Remember how the Shrub emphasised Iraq in connection with 9/11, until many Americans thought that the USA was invading Iraq because Saddam was responsible for 9/11?

Don T.