Last Straw

They invade and lay waste another coun­try, des­troy the lives of mil­lions of Iraqis for gen­er­a­tions to come, all on some trumped up drivel about “weapons of mass destruction.”

Now they’re arguing over the real reason. Oil. It’s not enough that con­trol of Iraq’s crude is being div­vied up amongst the cap­it­al­ists of the world. Thomas Pick­ens — an oil tycoon and polit­ical act­iv­ist who hasn’t served a day in the army him­self — has been arguing a line, and accord­ing to Reu­ters, recently told U.S. con­gress that he thinks U.S. cap­it­al­ists alone are “entitled” to Iraqi crude because “we” spent bil­lions of U.S. taxes and the lives of 5000 U.S. army pawns invad­ing and occupy­ing the country.

Classy.