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Your "MPG" Lately?
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BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
by One Citizen
It
was recently revealed that just 6 months prior to 9/11, at the VP's
closed-door Energy Policy Summit in March of 2001, Dick Cheney was
planning on carving up Iraq and serving it like it was a side of
beef to corporate insiders, many of whom may well have been former
business partners. [LINK]
The date of these events may be significant because many folks don't
realize that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld pushed to invade
Iraq immediately after 9/11, [LINK]
although failed to give any specifics as to why he wanted to target
Iraq instead of Afghanistan.
Recently the 9/11 committee report revealed that there was NO connection
between Hussein, Iraq, or Iraqi weapons or even terrorist financing
of the horrible attacks on mainland U.S. in September of 2001. This
particular report result was actually not surprising, since it was
exactly what the CIA and all of our other intelligence departments
were reporting to the Bush Administration, along with France, Germany,
and each of the major members of the U.N. Security counsel (with the
exception of Great Britain). Even the U.N. weapons inspectors reported
that there was no exigent situation warranting the bombing of Baghdad
when Bush ordered them out of Iraq.
As it turns out, even Saddam Hussein's own weapons declarations have
proved to be more truthful than Bush's State of the Union address by
which he urged that we wage an unprecedented "preemptive" war
on Iraq.
It appears that the only exception to all of the then-existing reports
and evidence was from the ad hoc "special operations" intelligence
committee that Rumsfeld had cobbled together in OCTOBER of 2001 (after
he told CBS he wanted to go after Iraq) apparently for the purpose
of carrying out the VP's "energy" plans from back in March
of that same year. [LINK]
Either Rumsfeld's "Special Ops" detail forgot to turn any
of its Iraqi evidence over to Congress' ongoing 9/11 probe (which is
highly unlikely), or his detail had nothing but bogus information to
offer in the first place. On the other hand, it apparently was convincing
enough to make Bush's State of the Union speech which resulted in the
invasion of Iraq.
Anyway, it just so happens that if the U.N. Security Counsel had actually
sanctioned our invasion of Iraq, all of those Gas Oil and Pipeline
reps at the VP's Energy Summit would have been forced to competitively
bid for their "rebuilding" contracts against France, Germany,
and the rest of "Old Europe's" businesses. So invading Iraq
without the UN security counsel's approval has cost us dearly in soldier's
lives as well as billions of dollars. And the cost will continue unless
we're willing to do something about it.
There's no doubt that America loves the SUV. But the cost associated
with America's MPG is outrageous. A tune-up just won't do. (see attached).
The best way to get the "MPG" we deserve is a complete overhaul
of the existing Energy Policy. The problem is that the only way that will happen is if we replace the entire G.O.P. "Machine".
Happy Motoring!
One Citizen
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