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2007-08-21 Home Front: Politix

Oil Wars: Fueling Both U.S. Empire & Ecocide

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Posted by Marine0352 2007-08-21 07:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Marine, I don't even know where to begin.

I suppose we should first determine Mr. Brook's sincerity - was his piece of excrement produced without consuming any oil? Of course not. Like the rest of America, he too is addicted to oil.

Indirectly the Iraq war is 'about the oil' - but not just Iraq's oil, and not just the US supply. All the world suppliers and consumers are inextricably interconnected. And the Persian Gulf states are a huge part of that supply - the stability of the region is in the best interest of pretty much the whole world. And, like it or not, what we have now is 'stability' - relative to what it could be.

If it was only about the US supply, and the US cared nothing about international law or world opinion, it would have almost certainly been cheaper and easier to attack and annex the oil regions of Venezuela and/or Mexico (shorter supply lines and fewer language problems.)

I do kind of like the OIL acronym - maybe we can use it for Operation Iranian Liberation!

Sorry, I don't have the stomach to read the rest of this mess.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-21 08:45|| 2007-08-21 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 He seems to have serious issues with oil...like Queeg with strawberries.

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-21 08:56|| 2007-08-21 08:56|| Front Page Top

#3 it appears that the long-term plans are to build and maintain four to six permanent super-bases .........American suburbia with its requisite multinational fast food outlets, not to mention movie theaters and golf courses

I've been to a few of them here in the last 30 days..... anyone got a grid on the ones he's talking about? My golf game is indeed suffering.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-21 08:59|| 2007-08-21 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Cut that guy some slack, he's writing at DISSIDENT voice, he's a Rebel, a Non-conformist, a Free-thinker in a sea of sheeples, and he's trying to Enlighten the sweating masses. He is our better, we should acknowledge that.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-21 09:00|| 2007-08-21 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 "Rantburgers, please help me educate this gentleman."

Forget it, Marine0352; people like him are beyond educating. They believe the crap they believe not because they're misinformed, but because they NEED to believe it lest their entire self-image collapse.

People like him are mentally defective, not uneducated.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-08-21 09:52|| 2007-08-21 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 This is what over 70 years of marxist and neomarxist subversion produces : self-replicating memetic warbots hellbent on weakening/destroying their own society because they've been taught it's Evil.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-21 09:59|| 2007-08-21 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 The article is unreadable. Clearly Mr. Brook did not acquire a degree in any of the many fields where clear written communication is required. The verbs with which he starts the article are only tangentially related to the subject matter, and the second paragraph is comprised almost entirely of a single run-on sentence totalling 203 words. Perhaps when Mr. Brook can write better it will be worthwhile to fisk his attempt at thinking. In the meantime, the editor at Dissident Voice should be hung for dereliction of duty.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-21 10:19|| 2007-08-21 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, here's the whole portfolio...

http://www.brook.com/dan/

He seems to have even more issues with meat then he does with oil...
Mostly, the "doctor" seems to enjoy the sound of his own voice.

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-21 10:50|| 2007-08-21 10:50|| Front Page Top

#9
#3
I thought the entry fee for the Baqouba Open was much too high.

Posted by Fred 2007-08-21 11:05|| 2007-08-21 11:05|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the world would be a safer and more stable place if the US did seize all the oil fields in the ME, walled them off and sold the oil to the world markets at just above cost. The terrorist backers would be out of cash and the rest of the world would have a stable source of energy.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-21 13:08|| 2007-08-21 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Just one (of many) lil' problems with his theory:

Those "sprawling, huge metropolis like" bases in the Middle East we're building? Won't that actually decrease the amount of CO2 the military puts out because they're closer to "ground zero" where we need to be most of the time? I consider that a plus in the War on Air Pollution.

Posted by BA 2007-08-21 15:52|| 2007-08-21 15:52|| Front Page Top

#12 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR > MUST WE STOP FLYING TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING, SAVE THE PLANET. Support your local Hosses/Asses-and-Camels distributor(s). Smokestack- and Union-intensive industries = Amers must live in Tents + Togas + Polygamy, etc.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-21 19:30|| 2007-08-21 19:30|| Front Page Top

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