The U.S. has been at war with Iraq for twenty-four years.

[belltower]

32. wonder who got to Carter?

maybe the same men who assassinated JFK and sponsored LBJ and RMN? Then there's FDR who tied the relationship down on a warship, promising Arab consensus about Israel, dying a week later (note: 1944 FDR's Assistant Secretary of State was Nelson Rockefeller, future Vice President, first son of John D Rockefeller's only son). And there's Truman, who carried water of the Israel lobby, who kept Rockefeller in several advisory roles. And then came Eisenhower's coup d'etat in Iran. So the history doesn't quite start with Kissinger though he is surely of these men. These men seem to be related to the batch of ethically-corrupt nazi scientists and intelligence corps who Truman let in after the war, the same men Eisenhower complained about when he left office and who Kennedy was intent on disbanding (hence...)?

So this game of criminal plunder has been afoot a long time, and we will continue to play it until we end our gutless dependence on oil. It is a plunder driven by a petro-dollar "mill" that continues to turn, year over year. Many countries want that mill to stop, by having oil purchasable in non-dollar currencies. Saddam's Iraq was one of those, they wanted to be paid in dinars -- for darn good reasons!

So damn right, Saddam had to go. Exceptional American Capitalism rules the day!!!

But you know, climate change will stop that mill, pretty damn quick. We in the USA sure don't have the political will to stop that mill. I do expect those winds to be undeniably hitting the fan just in time for the 2106 election -- now, isn't that wonderful?

[1] http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/opposed-religious-fanatical

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