The recent set of no-bid contracts to big oil corporations, gaining them cheap access to Iraqi oil fields, is Exhibit A. Yes, the Iraq invasion was all about oil all along. Here’s how Bill Moyers sums it up: [1]
Perhaps those sweetheart deals in Iraq should be added to his proposed indictments. They have been purchased at a very high price. Four thousand American soldiers dead, tens of thousands permanently wounded, hundreds of thousands of dead and crippled Iraqis plus five million displaced, and a cost that will mount into trillions of dollars. The political analyst Kevin Phillips says America has become little more than an “energy protection force,” doing anything to gain access to expensive fuel without regard to the lives of others or the earth itself.
Watch this 6 minute video by Bill Moyers [1] for enough evidence to make honest people irate over the high price Americans have paid to give a few big corporations cheap access to oil.
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