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(61,033 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2015, 09:52 AM Mar 2015

Thanks so much for posting this

The neo-cons are shown to be rank bumblers vs the real power brokers, James Baker and the old hand oil barons.

It puts the Iraq debacle in a whole new light. Cheney, Bush, Baker and all the rest didn't care for the neo-cons plan to flood the market with oil and break Saudi dominance. They cared even less for all the lives that were to be lost making sure the oil stayed in the ground which thereby set the table for the price to go sky high.

Now I get why Cheney keeps coming out saying we won in Iraq and Obama is blowing all the progress his administration made. Cheney/Bush got the price of oil to over $100 a barrel and now, in Cheney's craven eyes, it's half that and it's all Obama's fault.

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