http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog/305Submitted by mark karlin on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 1:26pm.
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MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG
In tar balls, oil slicks and sludge, the oil is returning to the Americans to whom it belongs. Catastrophically it makes its way across the Gulf of Mexico waters, killing sea life as it spreads and rolling onto and despoiling the beaches, marshes, wetlands, bayous and rivers of the south coast. But it finally -- in an ironically tragic way -- is returning to its rightful owners: us.
In a disgraceful, deferential manner, the White House has let British Petroleum be in charge of the disaster clean up of its own making, just as the White House let Wall Street "deal with" the crash of the American economy that the river boat gamblers in Manhattan created.
But the oil is ours, and British Petroleum has no more right to be overseeing the ruin it has caused than Wall Street had in cleaning up an economic casino implosion of its own making.