Petraeus Report Cooks the Books with Deft Kabuki Spin: Benefactor: Big Oil.

Are You Sure You Can Handle the Truth?

Petraeus Report Cooks the Books with Deft Kabuki Spin.

Benefactor: Big Oil.

The Truth about Oil," and we're happy to share these truths with you.

September 21, 2007, Baltimore, MD.

Reading the General Petraeus report on the Iraq debacle reminded me of

nothing so much as Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men yelling, "You

can't handle the truth!"

The report goes to great lengths to paint a picture of progress in

Iraq, but the truth is a far different story. As the New York Times

and the Washington Post have reported, the declining number of deaths

in Iraq that Petraeus cites depends on a few accounting tricks: like

not counting a death as an assassination if you're shot in the front

of the head, and not counting deaths by car bombs.

So, what are we really doing in Iraq?

We're building and maintaining permanent military bases from which our

military will ensure a near-monopoly of the world's second-largest oil

reserve. All this... for a small cadre of corporate fatheads,

including the top members of Bush, Inc. The American taxpayer will be

burdened with footing the bill for security in Iraq ($2 billion PER

DAY!) to provide stable working conditions for Exxon-Mobil, Shell,

Halliburton, not to mention the dozens of corporations feeding off the

military spend bosom.

But this White House clearly believes you can't handle the truth.

Well, those of us in the energy world can handle it, and here it is:

because the U.S. could not tolerate the possibility that the second-

largest oil bonanza on Earth might be held beyond our reach by a

dictator who hated us.

The fact is, the U.S. uses fully one-quarter of the world's oil, but

we possess only about two percent of its reserves, and we rely on

imports for about 60% of our consumption.

Meanwhile, Peak Oil is either just behind us, or nearly upon us...

Without guaranteed access to Iraq's oil, we absolutely could not

maintain our military and economic dominance of the world. Vice

President Cheney has known this, even spoken publicly about it, for

many years. And why else would he have convened a meeting of Big Oil

representatives within his first month in the White House to pore over

maps of Iraq's oil fields, as if that were the top priority of the

administration?

We at EnergyAndCapital.com have prepared a full report, called "The

Truth about Oil," and we're happy to share these truths with you.

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"In all wars the object is to protect or to seize money, property and

power, and there will always be wars so long as Capital rules and

oppresses people."

-Ernst Friedrich, War Against War (1924)

"Raymond" <Bluerhymer@aol.com> wrote in message

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> Reading the General Petraeus report on the Iraq debacle reminded me of

> nothing so much as Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men yelling, "You

> can't handle the truth!"

That's a very apt analogy.

Very apt, indeed.