And it couldn't even be more obvious than that. Yeah, people (media) may attribute it to the declining economy in the face of skyrocketing energy prices (that they, i.e. Rethug Oil Barons and Bankers manipulate), but, they knew all of THAT was coming, in fact, THEY created the situation, THEY wanted that scenario so that they could push through all of the bloodsucking corporatist taxpayer funded corporate welfare projects for Nuclear and Big Oil and further deregulate anything left standing. They wanted to create this situation so that they could distract people while they run roughshod in Washington D.C. So, WHY the turnabout all of a sudden. Weren't we just saber rattling a couple of weeks ago? Was not Iran testing missles? Was not Israel running special drills?
What happened?
Oh, how about this was announced:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3065913.stm ">Iran finds giant oil field
Iran has found new oilfields, with total reserves as high as 38 billion barrels.
Analysts say that only a small fraction of that may be commercially worthwhile, but it is nonetheless a very large find.
This discovery serves to reinforce an important feature of the long term outlook for oil supplies - that reserves available for future exploitation are dominated by the Middle East and Opec, the oil producers' cartel.
Much will depend on how quickly oil consumption increases.
But most analysts think that Opec is likely to account for an increasing share of world supplies.
more at link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3065913.stm Now all of a sudden we're in the first steps of normalizing relations with Iran and setting up a mini shop inside their borders? Now all of a sudden we're sitting down at the same table with them?
Something tells me that it ain't because Bush woke up and smelt the coffee. It ain't because Obama and Gates have been pushing for diplomacy with Iran. It ain't because of none of that.
It's the OIL. And if Iran doesn't play ball, they will get the ball taken away from them. The Bush Administration and the folks who have propped them up just want to be at the table with the rest of these countries who have BEEN THERE because they don't want to be left out of the action and they KNOW these others countries will not stand by and allow the U.S. to fuck up their money by way of the energy supply by invading Iran. So, now, the U.S. has to play along, just long enough to convince these other countries that the U.S. would be better trusted with the Iranians' oil rather than a bunch of Iranians trying to acquire "nuclear weapons".