Bush finally 'fesses up: It's the oil, stupid

[thatcrazycajun]

As National Public Radio's Marketplace reported today here and Keith Olbermann noted in his "Special Comment" this evening (transcript and video here), Junior Bush is on the stump to the last possible minute campaigning for beleaguered Congressional candidates of his party...and threatening that, if we pull out of Iraq now (as more and more people in both parties and on both sides are demanding), terrorists could use Iraq's oil as an economic weapon against us.

So now, at long last, the sordid truth comes out. In last-day desperation, Bush has finally let slip what some of us (including documentarian Michael Moore and Your Humble Correspondent) knew all along, and have been saying all along: This war is and always was about one thing, and one thing only: oil. Not supposed WMD stockpiles. Not Saddam Hussein's very real tyranny. Not bringing the poor oppressed Iraqis Western-style democracy. No, the real reason over 2,100 US servicemembers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died was so Bush and his awl-bidness buddies could get their grimy mitts on the second-biggest petroleum reserves in the world...or at least get Saddam's off them. Vengeance for his daddy's "failure" was just gravy.

Betcha all those families who lost loved ones or had them maimed physically and psychically in Iraq the last three years feel lots better now, knowing their sacrifice went for a higher purpose: to keep us in sub-$3.00-a-gallon gasoline. Thank you ever so much, Mr. President—you just put the lock on control of the 110th Congress getting handed to your opponents tomorrow. And after spending the early evening phonebanking to help it happen, it'll be extra sweet to see all those seats that used to be labeled "R" turning to "D" this time tomorrow night.

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I think he was lying. I don't know why he was so hot to attack Iraq--whether it was all those lovely defense contracts or to show up his father or to start Armageddon or what, but I think the war in Iraq has had a predictable effect on the price of oil--to drive it up.

And I'm pissed at Olberman for not mentioning the Iraqi dead, nor the coalition dead either.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Matt, you've been out of Louisiana too long.

That's "aw-yul bdness"

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Not in Texas, it ain't. (Trust me on that one; I lived in Texas for several years and have a stepfather who used to work for an oil company based there. He's the only one in my family who turns my nickname into two syllables: "May-att.")

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Where in Texas were YOU?

I grew up in the Refinery Belt along the Houston Ship Channel.
The guys my mom secretary'd for at the Humble/Esso/Exxon refinery at Baytown pronounced it "aw-yul"

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

We lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (do they still call it that, I wonder?), in Irving. My stepdad is from East Texas (a teeny town called Pine Hill not far from Tyler).