bush's oily war.......

as we are bombarded with more lies and slick f__k us group tested phrases like "the surge" or "new way forward" i think it's really important to think about the people who are really asked to make the sacrifices, especially those who are hosting the war. for almost 4 years now they have endured this nightmare. i know i have said this before but NO sacrifice has been asked of most of us.....we are told to shop more and put magnets on our SUV's. the bill will go on our grandchildren and great grandchildren's tab. the people of Iraq will pay the highest price. wake up America!!!!!


if you haven't seen Jackson Browne's song Lives in the balance with video added this really says it.
or here

another version
The Invasion of Iraq - Episode IV - Lives in the Balance

Bush Lied, humans Keep Dying.
3,020 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq (thru 14-Jan-07)
357 U.S. Military Fatalities in Afghanistan (thru 14-Jan-07)
22,834 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (DoD Update: 14-Jan-07)
59,189 Iraqis Reported Killed (thru 14-Jan-07; source: Iraq Body Count) 655,000 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: The Lancet)

and now i think we finally know what the big prize is......Randi Rhodes called it when she called it the "profit stealing aggreements"..........

Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity
The IndependentJanuary 7, 2007

The 'IoS' today reveals a draft for a new law that would give Western oil companies a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To the victors, the oil? That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement with a major Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits for the next 30 years.
So was this what the Iraq war was fought for, after all? As the number of US soldiers killed since the invasion rises past the 3,000 mark, and President George Bush gambles on sending in up to 30,000 more troops, The Independent on Sunday has learnt that the Iraqi government is about to push through a law giving Western oil companies the right to exploit the country's massive oil reserves.

And Iraq's oil reserves, the third largest in the world, with an estimated 115 billion barrels waiting to be extracted, are a prize worth having. As Vice-President Dick Cheney noted in 1999, when he was still running Halliburton, an oil services company, the Middle East is the key to preventing the world running out of oil.

Now, unnoticed by most amid the furore over civil war in Iraq and the hanging of
Saddam Hussein, the new oil law has quietly been going through several drafts,
and is now on the point of being presented to the cabinet and then the parliament in Baghdad. Its provisions are a radical departure from the norm for developing countries: under a system known as "production-sharing agreements", or PSAs, oil majors such as BP and Shell in Britain, and Exxon and Chevron in the US, would be able to sign deals of up to 30 years to extract Iraq's oil.
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