Here’s the full transcript of Col. Wilkerson’s speech I mentioned yesterday. Billmon discusses some of it at his place. One of the things that he cites is this startling paragraph:
The other thing that no one ever likes to talk about is SUVs and oil and consumption and, as one little girl said yesterday at the Yoshiyama Awards, do you know that we consume 60 percent of the world?s resources? We do; we consume 60 percent of the world?s resources. Well, we have an economy and we have a society that is built on the consumption of those resources. We better get fast at work changing the foundation ? and I don?t see us fast at work on that, by the way, another failure of this administration, in my mind ? or we better be ready to take those assets. We had a discussion in policy planning about actually mounting an operation to take the oilfields in the Middle East, internationalize them, put them under some sort of U.N. trusteeship and administer the revenues and the oil accordingly. That?s how serious we thought about it.
Think about that. The United States government, in order to keep its SUV-happy citizens in the lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed, seriously discussed taking over Middle East oilfields. Presumably that includes Saudi Arabian territory as well as Iraqi territory, Iranian territory as well as that of the UAE. Somehow I don’t see those countries voluntarily turning over the principal engines of their economies to a U.N. trusteeship, do you?
Our government is being run by lunatics. Go read Billmon for further discussion and better rantage; I’m too boggled to say any more.
Thanks for the link!!
I was drawn to this passage:
The meme that it was all a Dubya plot based upon lies is now firmly established. I wonder, however, what dispassionate historians will write 100 years from now.
They’ll probably write “how could so many people have been so wrong?”
Oh, and do remember that Condi and Dick were throwing around visions of nuclear weapons, while Wilkerson’s talking about “chem-bio” ones. Big difference.
How did our oil get under their sand?
Most people don’t like to talk about it, because they’re too busy using their SUVs to commute with no passengers from their house in the city to their job in the city, not to mention stopping at big box retailers to buy more stuff wrapped in oversized hard plastic containers.
Fred at Making Conservatives Cringe has a good piece on the silencing of the soldiers who speak out against Iraq.
Peace to you!