FINALLY! When, oh when, I've lamented for too long, will someone in the corporate MSM dare to expose the REAL aims underlying the invasion and occupation of Iraq?!
The teaser at the start of yesterday's Countdown with Keith Olbermann nearly bolted me out of my chair:
The real mission accomplished: 36 years after their oil wells were nationalized by Saddam Hussein, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, and BP are about to be back in business in Iraq.
Keith later "breaks" the news (I genuinely believe there are several elements of yesterday's reporting by Countdown that have NEVER, EVER been "aired" by network or cable news) in a conversation with Rachel Maddow. First dispensing with several of the ever-evolving, smoke-and-mirrors "explanations" for this aggressive war,
No matter what new retroactively applicable explanations for why we invaded the White House and war supporters have come up with, there still has been no credible explanation for why we went, especially one that would explain not only why we went, but why it‘s so important why we don‘t leave now.
Rachel, AT LAST!, fingers what I have described as The Biggest Armed Robbery of This Nascent New Century:
What actually does make sense, the actual, simple explanation that has been staring us in the face since before the beginning, since a guy had to quit Halliburton in order to become vice president, is that they want Iraq to be an oil colony.
DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!
The 'several elements . . . NEVER, EVER "aired" by network or cable news' before?
Apparently quoting the NYT story he cites, Keith discussed:
- the
history of Exxon/Mobil, Shell, British Petroleum, and Total in Iraq
- how these oil giants were once members of the
Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) consortium, that dominated Iraq's oil industry through much of the 20th century
- how Saddam, and his Ba'athist Party, ultimately
nationalized all of the IPC'S holdings (with compensation) in the 1970's
In a week that has included testimony before Congress, from Lawrence Wilkerson, that the Bush/Cheney mal-Administration's monstrous torture policy has led to detainees being tortured to death, TRUTH is breaking out!