Sometimes it's helpful to keep things simple. When you examine them under a simple light they seem to fall into place.
1. Bush and his BigOil buddies are rich from Oil. No one is disputing that. And they're all in the business of the BigOil monopolies. Again, no spindoctor can unspin those facts. We build the following on this one premise.
2. They want to continue on into the future as fat as they can on premise 1.
3. They know the largest reserves of their business, where they make their beloved billions each year is in Iraq/The Middle East.
4. They wanted the most control over those reserves as they could get.
(still with me? It makes sense that business men would want to control their market. No one can argue that and pursuade me to think otherwise)
5. They knew it was illegal to invade and perform a hostile takeover of Iraq so they, um, got a couple of reasons in place to convince Congress to allow their invasion.
6. Now that they've invaded and sacked the infrastructure, they're mad that the puppet government they tried to put in place isn't cooperating. They're blaming it on terrorists to milk more sympathy and PUBLIC money to continue a military presence to insure that Exxon, Mobil and the other fabulous five can put in their straws without those pesky sovereign Iraquis objecting or bombing the wells..
7. They want to stay there for 100 years. Not to insure democracy, but to insure their monopoly.
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It's very simple. It was a hostile corporate takeover that we the American people funded due to their lying and scare tactics. Now our fine country teeters on the brink of ruin due EXACTLY to this cause and they put icing on the cake of their greedy treasonous behavior by price-fixing the price of gas to milk the very last bit of lifeblood this country has left to further pad their little operation..
Everyone knows this. People are talking about it in cafes, coffee shops, workplaces (those few that are left to work in), gas stations...yes, especially gas stations...and bridge clubs from shore to shore. Everyone knows this and are looking to, begging their representatives to act to stop it before we lose our country. So far we get nothing but compliance and pandering to BigOil. Finally recently Congress stood up to them. Undoubtedly BigOil will slap them back in a thousand insidious little ways we'll never hear about.
So I guess I'm asking our representatives to sacrafice for the future. If they want a country to work in and if they don't enjoy seeing their own stocks and dollar be worth less than the paper they're printed on, they might consider turning a deaf ear to BigOil threats and tell them, collectively, to get stuffed.
Just a thought..keep it simple...
