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The revelation that invading and occupying Iraq was driven entirely by oil comes as no surprise to many.
There’s seldom any satisfaction in proving someone wrong, especially if it’s someone you respect. It’s a sad and tragic vindication for those of us who tried to reason with our blindly idealistic friends and family that the Iraq war was about anything other than oil. After nearly eight years of this, “I told you so” just doesn’t do it justice.
What’s even more troubling is what we’ll likely discover when Bush and Cheney finally leave office. Just today, we learn that Cheney’s “office was involved in removing statements on health risks posed by global warming from a draft of a health official’s Senate testimony last year.” If this is the tip of the iceberg, we’re not sure we can handle the whole enchilada (at the risk of mixing our metaphors).
“Former chairman of the Federal Reserve [Alan Greenspan], safely out of office, confessed in his memoir, ‘Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.’ He elaborated in an interview with The Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward, ‘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.’”
Bush and Cheney’s motives for war go hand-in-hand with their criminal policies toward global climate change. It’s all about protecting and enriching Big Oil.
“At a Congressional hearing this week, James Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who exactly twenty years ago alerted Congress and the world to the dangers of global warming, compared the chief executives of Big Oil to the tobacco moguls who denied that nicotine is addictive or that there’s a link between smoking and cancer. Hansen, whom the administration has tried again and again to silence, said these barons of black gold should be tried for committing crimes against humanity and nature in opposing efforts to deal with global warming.”
Only about six months left, folks. What’s the worst that could happen?
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