The most astounding part of all this is that the American people have accepted war for oil with hardly a murmur. We have more information than any society in history but are collectively unable to grasp the obvious truth. When we were going into Iraq, I thought people's denial was the result of a media complicit with white house propaganda. But now that all the evidence is in, we are to blame. We are why the president could lie us into war without being held accountable. We are why America can war for oil. The media can wave the victory cup of the oil war in our faces and laced with government supplied talking points... we swallow. We know but we don't move. It is as if our collective conscience is that someone else will have the strength of character to do the right thing. But nobody does. And sadly, no one is going to. As a matter of fact, we have a presidential candidate who is already espousing the need to attack Iran. We have graduated from being told that Iraq has WMD to Iran could have them some day. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Someone will surely have the strength of character to keep us from being fooled again.
So it is about oil
The most astounding part of all this is that the American people have accepted war for oil with hardly a murmur. We have more information than any society in history but are collectively unable to grasp the obvious truth. When we were going into Iraq, I thought people's denial was the result of a media complicit with white house propaganda. But now that all the evidence is in, we are to blame. We are why the president could lie us into war without being held accountable. We are why America can war for oil. The media can wave the victory cup of the oil war in our faces and laced with government supplied talking points... we swallow. We know but we don't move. It is as if our collective conscience is that someone else will have the strength of character to do the right thing. But nobody does. And sadly, no one is going to. As a matter of fact, we have a presidential candidate who is already espousing the need to attack Iran. We have graduated from being told that Iraq has WMD to Iran could have them some day. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Someone will surely have the strength of character to keep us from being fooled again.
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