tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post8423566550768090948..comments2024-03-19T15:24:48.864-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: The Tenth Anniversary- Whoopee!Green Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-82253602560690774552013-03-19T20:30:00.250-07:002013-03-19T20:30:00.250-07:00Of course, Bush and Cheney, like all Republican po...Of course, Bush and Cheney, like all Republican politicians were just the small crooks. Even though Cheney's thirty pieces of silver amounted to something more like thirty million, it is spare change compared to what not just the oil companies, but Bush's BFF's in Saudi Arabia made.<br /><br />By the way, I have always suspected that the reason the first Bush didn't topple Saddam is that half the reason for the war was to have an excuse to ban Iraqi oil from the world market for ten years or so, driving up the price of oil and making the Saudis tens or hundreds of billions of extra income.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-66286853997985630992013-03-19T18:35:05.914-07:002013-03-19T18:35:05.914-07:00I watched "Hubris" and while the show cr...I watched "Hubris" and while the show criticized the conduct of the war, it didn't say why we were there in the first place. The only two reasons I can think of is the Haliburton angle and to raise the price of oil, which went from $22 in 2002 to $58 in 2006. The windfall profits to big oil dwarfed those of Haliburton. Of course, it could easily be both, greed tends to find solace in greed.josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057606413590949268noreply@blogger.com