I hope you didn't include me, Q. I know how companies finance. I know companies employ. Fact is, I only was making comment on the fact that "I" believe big oil starts wars with their own resources and relies on government(s) military resources to back them up. People die. Countless thousands in a decade or so.

I've said it before on other threads, including this one, I think. BP took a hit in The Gulf. BP, who was just setting up operations in Libya, wanted to renegoiate the RECENT deal with Quackdaffy and he said no, so... BOOM. Of course, that was after BP pulled out it's employees. A buddy of mine was in charge of those operations. Last time I heard from him was to let me know he was home safe and sound... just down the road from you.

I understand, to an uneducated extent, war and I believe it has three valid purposes. Ensuring future existence, culling the population, and opposing oppression (far too seldom on the last one). That does not mean I have to like war. Of course, I realize that my standard of living WAS won and continues to be sustained with the barrel of a gun and that I would much rather be on the team that wins. Still, to see the horror sickens me. Perhaps I am a hypocrite?