What will it take to make Democrats talk about real reasons for Iraq War?

[yurbud]

Serious analysts like Ray McGovern have laid them out, and the neocons themselves and even Democrats like Zbigniew Brzezinski laid out the arguments for hegemony over the world's oil supply.

And yet Democrats, even those who are supposed critics of the war are loathe to talk about this, and instead talk about how Iraq relates to the War on Terror or sidestep the issue altogether with bullshit about "Now we're there so we have to finish the job."

This is not a side issue, but central to why Iraqis resent the occupation. They know we cancelled Saddam's oil contracts and are setting up their oil industry to suit our oil companies. They aren't stupid freepers who believe whatever Bush says, they look with their own eyes.

We cannot fix the problem until our leaders are honest about what the problem is, and it is not enough to refer to it obtusely in paragraph 32 of a speech that spends most it's time talking about terrorist getting WMD, which is important, but is an effect not a cause of our foreign policy in that region, and, at least in terms of ending the war, is about as relevant as talking about how much pixie dust weighs.

What can we do to force this on the agenda and into the public debate?

The Democrats have essentially ceded this ground to the right so that to even mention it is considered conspiracy theory non-sense.

But this was until very recently the conventional wisdom about Bush lying about why we invaded Iraq (until the Downing Street Minutes) and earlier about Bush ignoring warnings before 9/11 (until the 9/11 Commission, as imperfect as it was).

Greg Palast, Naomi Klein, and Greg Muttitt have gathered the government documents and even talked to the players to make the prima facie case that the Bush administration planned to give Iraq's oil to American companies and how they have done and are doing so.

Palast got Gen. Garner, first colonial governor of Iraq, on camera talking about it, and Grover Norquist, who wrote the plan to privatize everything that was such bald-faced theft that even the oil companies balked at it (and went to a subtler form of theft).


http://www.gregpalast.com/iraqmeetingstimeline.html

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2005/crudedesigns.htm

A compilation of articles on oil in our foreign policy:
http://www.mymethow.com/%7Ejoereid/oil_coup.html

Despite this evidence, our elected officials are not talking about it.

What will be our DSM or 9/11 Commission on the REAL REASONS for the war?

What do we have to do to force this into the debate?

[Army]

1. OIF Veterans

Wait until some of the OIF Veterans (ahem) get home and start talking about it, the democrats will get a backbone.

[yurbud]

2. some are back and talk about guarding oil wells...

maybe I need to bug some of those groups.

[atreides1]

3. Welcome to DU

Some of the OIF Veterans are back, but the only ones that the media even bother with are those that can't accept the fact that Bush and the majority of the Republicans used them for cannon fodder.

Besides, the media sharks will spin you guys as disgruntled and accuse you of failing to support your fellow troops still in harm's way.

Welcome back from a Desert Storm Vet.