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Thread #57954   Message #914818
Posted By: NicoleC
20-Mar-03 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: War--Really Began Now
Subject: RE: BS: War--Really Began Now
Yes and no. It's not about US control per se. Americans are perfectly happy to pay for oil; it's not like anyone is planning on stealing it. It's about which corporations earn a profit off the oil sales; which are now guarenteed to be US corporations that happen to meet the mandatory criteria of being willing donors to the Republican Party and those companies with financial ties to the current administration.

The ongoing war over oil is onlt going to get more vicious. Like any addict, the US thinks it needs a bigger and bigger oil fix instead of finding more productive and healthy solutions like getting off the drug instead. Geologists are telling us that oil supplies are due to run out within a few decades. Like starving dogs, the pack is going to fight over what's left of the oil carcass. Unlike dogs, however, we must sugar our self-interest with delusions of how noble and humanitarian we are, despite our clear hypocrasy of ignoring the same crimes anywhere else that doesn't have what we want at the moment.