Gold9472
04-09-2008, 06:49 PM
Letter to the Editor
If we're not in it for oil, then why are we there?
http://media.www.keeneequinox.com/media/storage/paper537/news/2008/04/10/Opinions/If.Were.Not.In.It.For.Oil.Then.Why.Are.We.There-3313329.shtml
Mike Jackman - Junior
Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Opinions
Last week, Tom Mathews wrote "we are not fighting for oil in Iraq, so wake up."
Then, why are we in Iraq? I doubt it is a mere coincidence that our current Vice President, Dick Cheney, CEO of Halliburton Corp. from 1995 to 2000, said in 1999 that "the Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize lies."
If oil is not on the agenda, then why did Cheney meet privately with big oil companies during the first few months of the Bush Administration's takeover? A White House document obtained by the Washington Post showed that Cheney met with officials from Exxon/Mobil, Shell and BP America. Why are the minutes from these meetings "classified" and does it have anything to do those "weapons of mass destruction" we didn't find in Iraq?
Even if you believe the official story behind Sept. 11, why did we invade a country that posed no threat to us and had nothing to do with the attacks? Why did President Bush say "I don't think about Bin Laden much any more?"
Wasn't he the one supposedly responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans? Why did Bush and Cheney testify to the 9/11 Commission behind closed doors, with no transcript released, which was what the victim's family members had requested? Why was Philip Zelikow, a member of the Bush Administration, author of the Iraq war policy and longtime friend of Condoleezza Rice, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission?
This, coupled with egregious lies from a criminal administration that is spying on its citizens and supports the use of torture, should be angering us instead of the nonexistent "liberal" media. Democrats and so-called liberals don't get a free pass either, for they are just as complicit in their silence and complacency on the real issues as is the Bush Administration.
Obama and Clinton aren't any kind of real change or answer to the problem because they are both party politicians. I suggest you take a look at what is really going on and how this administration has based everything on the "post-Sept. 11 world" and have used it to justify illegal wars, torture, spying and scaring the living daylights out of all of us.
If we're not in it for oil, then why are we there?
http://media.www.keeneequinox.com/media/storage/paper537/news/2008/04/10/Opinions/If.Were.Not.In.It.For.Oil.Then.Why.Are.We.There-3313329.shtml
Mike Jackman - Junior
Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Opinions
Last week, Tom Mathews wrote "we are not fighting for oil in Iraq, so wake up."
Then, why are we in Iraq? I doubt it is a mere coincidence that our current Vice President, Dick Cheney, CEO of Halliburton Corp. from 1995 to 2000, said in 1999 that "the Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize lies."
If oil is not on the agenda, then why did Cheney meet privately with big oil companies during the first few months of the Bush Administration's takeover? A White House document obtained by the Washington Post showed that Cheney met with officials from Exxon/Mobil, Shell and BP America. Why are the minutes from these meetings "classified" and does it have anything to do those "weapons of mass destruction" we didn't find in Iraq?
Even if you believe the official story behind Sept. 11, why did we invade a country that posed no threat to us and had nothing to do with the attacks? Why did President Bush say "I don't think about Bin Laden much any more?"
Wasn't he the one supposedly responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans? Why did Bush and Cheney testify to the 9/11 Commission behind closed doors, with no transcript released, which was what the victim's family members had requested? Why was Philip Zelikow, a member of the Bush Administration, author of the Iraq war policy and longtime friend of Condoleezza Rice, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission?
This, coupled with egregious lies from a criminal administration that is spying on its citizens and supports the use of torture, should be angering us instead of the nonexistent "liberal" media. Democrats and so-called liberals don't get a free pass either, for they are just as complicit in their silence and complacency on the real issues as is the Bush Administration.
Obama and Clinton aren't any kind of real change or answer to the problem because they are both party politicians. I suggest you take a look at what is really going on and how this administration has based everything on the "post-Sept. 11 world" and have used it to justify illegal wars, torture, spying and scaring the living daylights out of all of us.