Driving the surge in gas prices? The Bush-McCain surge in Iraq, By Greg Palast

[Echo In Light]

Driving the surge in gas prices? The Bush-McCain surge in Iraq
By Greg Palast for TomPaine.com/OurFuture.org

I can’t make this up:

In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map of the Middle East, drew a fat, red line around Iraq and signed their names to it.

The map, the red line, the secret signatures. It explains this war. It explains this week’s rocketing of the price of oil to $134 a barrel.

It happened on July 31, 1928, but the bill came due now.

Barack Obama knows this. Or, just as important, those crafting his policies seem to know this. Same for Hillary Clinton’s team. There could be no more vital difference between the Republican and Democratic candidacies. And you won’t learn a thing about it on the news from the Fox-holes.

Let me explain.

http://www.gregpalast.com/obama%e2%80%99s-secret-war-profiteering-tax/

[lonestarnot]

1. A war profiteering tax= windfall profit tax and it should be 99%!

Palast is a 21st Century Wise Man. :applause:

[lonestarnot]

2. kick!

[Postman]

3. We're paying for this war/occupation thru the gas pump. It's not right.

when do we say fuck it, I ain't buying their goddam gas?

Never.

They got us by the balls, unless you can walk or ride a bike to work.

Maybe there needs to be a national strike..