The Coming War with Iran: It's About the Oil, Stupid

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from HuffPost:



Joe Lauria
The Coming War with Iran: It's About the Oil, Stupid
Posted April 13, 2008 | 01:35 PM (EST)




World civilization is based on oil. The world is running out of oil. The oil companies and governments are not telling the truth about how close we are to the end. Dick Cheney knew about peak oil back in 1999 when he spoke to the London Petroleum Institute as Halliburton CEO. He predicted it would come in 2010. After that it's just a matter of years before it runs out. Whoever controls the remaining oil determines who lives and who dies.

Sixty percent of this oil is under a triangular area of the Middle East the size of Kansas. In that speech Cheney said: "The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

This small Middle East triangle encompasses the northeast of Saudi Arabia, all of Iraq and the southwestern part of Iran, along with Kuwait, Qatar and the Emirates. The US controls Iraq. It has friendly governments in the other states.

Iran is the exception. The US now surrounds Iran.

Controlling an area the size of Kansas shouldn't be a problem for the U.S. military, except that it is heavily populated and many people in the triangle don't want the Americans there and are willing to fight.

It's been known for at least thirty years that America needs alternative energy sources. But instead of an alternative energy plan we got the invasion of Iraq by oilmen wedded to a dying business, willing to kill hundreds of thousands to cling to the last drop. The US is never leaving the region or withdrawing from Iraq. McCain is right about staying, but 100 years is too long. The oil won't last that long. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-lauria/the-coming-war-with-iran_b_96428.html

[SteinbachMB]

1. Peak oil?

Cue the graphs.

[iamthebandfanman]

2. i had a right winger say to me

'if this war was so about oil then where is it all, we arent getting any of it'

to which i replied,
well, the depends on how you look at it. do you think the oil was for the american people or big oil corporations? cause if its the corporations, youd be outraged too.

[elizfeelinggreat]

3. Seven years ago

this would have caused an outrage.

I don't believe that's true anymore and the fact that Cheney is talking openly about it means they feel justified in their actions. The Greedy Old Perverts are at it again.