To all who think the Iraq war is not about oil.

[Capn Amerika]

Brigadier-General William Looney, U.S. Air Force director of the bombing of Iraq in 2003 said,

"They know we own their country. We own their air space We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need."

[Skip Intro]

1. Well its obviously not about what they told us it was about

and we got oil men from Texas slobbing through the WH. And Generals saying things like this. And damn, just take a step back and look at the actions and there has to be little doubt. What else would it be about?

[az chela]

2. I have known since we went into Iraq that it is about the oil

Bush and cheney and their base wants all that oil so they can control everything.
They dont care who dies or what we beleive as long as they get the oil

[tabasco]

3. Those record oil profits are just a coincidence. Honest.

Putting the US Army on top of the world's second largest oil reserve had no effect whatsoever.

[Double T]

7. jabba the hut, former ceo of exxon mobil

[blues90]

10. My god , is this photo real ?

Is this hanging chin freak one of the upper 2% ? What a freak , what a sick freak he is .

[Capn Amerika]

11. Looks like the The Elephant Man.

But the elephant man didn't have a dark soul like this asshole.

[MasonJar]

4. That is sick and totally un-American...or at least what I was brought

up to think of as un-American. Obviously citizens of the US have scarcely stopped mistreating and oppressing weaker citizens of the world for our whole history, starting with the American Indians.

[Double T]

5. The big oil companies are dictating america's war policy............

just ask cheney and his secret energy policy cartel. They refuse to lose the Iraq oil...er..war.

[patrice]

13. This has been a Private War from the git go.

Financed on decades of tax subsidies and Sold as a middle-class jobs program.

[Capn Amerika]

14. And it's the private military contractors who are getting rich off it

as well as the oil companies.

[karlrschneider]

6. Er, General LOONEY?

:silly: :wtf: :rofl: :yoiks: :nuke:

[Capn Amerika]

15. Yeah he was promoted by Brigadier General Bat Shit Crazy

[patrice]

8. Have you heard the story about how alpha male river crocodiles

in Africa increase the number of and intensity of their attacks on other crocodiles as drought deepens and waterholes shrink in their biome, unlike non-alpha males who attack less and less until they actually go away and dig a hole in whatever mud is left and hibernate until the Rains come. The alpha males don't go into hibernation, but stay up so they can fight anyone who comes along. They keep fighting season after season until finally, one season, the rains come and the non-alpha males return from hibernation to full rivers and to the bleached bones of the neighborhood's alpha male.

[GenDem]

9. WOW - powerful analogy

regarding aggression.

[patrice]

12. Instincts are not necessarily a given individual's fate, but groups

may have less adaptability when they need it most.

[Cruzan]

16. I have always known it's about oil, just not only about oil

Oil is a major factor, but so is the PNAC desire to protect Israel -- posed as 'democratizing' the Middle East -- and the whole weird gotta-finish-what-poppy-didn't-and-show-him-I'm-better part. Altogether that's why I think we invaded Iraq.