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Entry: Was It The Oil, All Along? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/was_it_the_oil_all_along#10102 Post contents: OK… so it’s about the oil. That’s simple – I mean, look at all the wars incited by the oil industry America has waged in the Middle East over the past, say, century. Oops… well, maybe there’s some other evidence we can pore over. Oil-based avarice is such a good cover for the machinations of the Likud Party and their domestic operatives that any discussion of its actual role in our vast strategic disaster looks like yet another layer of political camouflage on an already-opaque chronicle. Yeah… it played a part. The Iraq War – and our Mideast policy in general – are yoked about our necks courtesy the Washington power elite, the military industrial complex, and, dammit, the Israeli Lobby. This New American Imperium is intended to boost the power of the unitary executive to that of a Mongol warlord, earn money for the deathware suppliers and oil companies, and ensure the security and regional strategic hegemony of our brave little ally in the Levant. This ugly, alien New Order has thrown away the lives of some of our best citizens (as well as thousands of Iraqis and Afghans), drained our treasury, shredded the Constitution, established a yankee gulag of officially sanctioned torture centers and rendered us more isolated and less secure than we ever have been. The rest of the world despises us. With reason. But we can expect to hear the “it’s all about oil” incantation from the all-pervasive media web-work as the staggering measure of this catastrophe becomes apparent to even the most blinkered of Red Stater. Our true motives always need to be gussied up – especially when we’re talking about that rough little neighborhood “over there.” Somehow, I don’t seen the Ochs-Sulzbergers, the Sumner Redstones, the Haim Sabans, the Rupert Murdochs, et al., abandoning a favorite cause – and telling us the truth - at this darkening hour… Sent at: 2008 10 12