Reply #70: In Iraq for Israel ??? [View All]

[Coastie for Truth]

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That's WHY we're in Iraq, if the truth were known. To protect Israel, to surround it with US military might, and destroy its enemies, even if they have done nothing whatever to harm us. It's absolutely madness to think that we are improving Israel's security by slaughtering and torturing Iraqis, and driving Iran to get nukes (if that's what they're doing). But that what it's about, in my opinion.

Gimme a break - I've been in the energy industry for 30 plus years.

There is an impending oil shortfall. People from across the political spectrum - right to left, neocon/PNAC to Green/Greenpeace recognize that we are in deep doodoo with respect to our energy balance --- and Bush's wishin' and Cheney's pissin' in the wind and aggressive wars for oil won't make it better.

I would commend to your attention James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, or for a different viewpoint I would recommend Amory Lovins, Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profit, Jobs and Security, or perchance, Matthew Simmons, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, and maybe for some scientific backup, Ken Deffeyes' two books, Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak or Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage. See Anthony Evans' An Introduction to Economic Geology and Its Environmental Impact for a good non-technical read on petroleum geology.

Why are we in Iraq? - you can go with the PNAC doctrine of aggressive wars to project military power and assert hegemony over other people's oil, as described in PNAC's Rebuilding America's Defenses, and as explained simply, from a left perspective, in Paul Sperry's Crude Politics : How Bush's Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism, or Mark Levine's Why They Don't Hate Us : Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil.

And if you want to get screwed up like me, start with Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by Warren McCabe, Julian Smith, and Peter Harriott and go on to Transport Phenomena, 2nd Edition by R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart, and Edwin N. Lightfoot.

It is all about oil, crude oil in the ground, oil pipelines, and Euro denominated oil brouses. But it's all about oil.

To Texas oil men, like Bush I, Bush II, and Cheney - Israel ain't a pimple on a real Texas oil man's left butt cheek.