Political analysis
It's Still About the Oil, Stupid.
- By Guest Writer
- February 03, 2008
I know why Bush and Cheney want to bomb the shit out of Iran.
It’s about the oil, stupid.
Just like Iraq.
Just like the nascent conflict with our oil-consumption doppelganger, the Chinese. Peking brags about satellite killers while training their two million-man army. Their economy will soon be starving for cheap oil enough to fight for it. Just like ours.
Why don’t we change energy strategy? Why do we act like it’s 1959? Because that’s who we are.
We are: Good buddies with the Saudis, those rotten fuckers who beat and jail rape victims. The very country the terrorists REALLY come from.
We are: The people who allowed a despot President turn loose a 100,000 man shadow army operating outside any chain of command, decency or the Geneva fucking convention, killing any Iraqi they pleased.
We are: Allowing torture in our name.
We are: Standing idly by while the Iranian “terror threat” gets pumped up to war. We cannot stand the Iranians interrupting the oil grab in Iraq.
It’s all for US, ya know. So we can have our malls and our fake religions, our Super Bowl, our political junk food dressed up as debate, our food “products”. Mostly, though, what this REALLY boils down to is our One True Religion:
Unbridled Consumption.
We are NOT: Going to be Inconvenienced one fucking bit.
We will not: Move from the suburbs, stop driving SUV’S, change a fucking thing we believe we have a right to, which is Everything
We are: Willing to kill millions, maybe billions, to perpetuate our degenerate lifestyle.
Until the oil runs out.
We are: One Ipod away from an infantile nervous breakdown over the loss of gluttony we have mistaken for “freedom.”
We are: Incapable of growing our own food, mending our own clothes, participating in our own democracy beyond the beauty pageant that is our election “process”.
We are: Complicit in every outrage, partners in every violation of the freedoms we espouse while crying over the dead we happily sacrifice to our avarice.
Then we complain about gas prices.
Then we drive to the mall.
Maybe they really do hate us for our freedoms.
[ This Editorial was a guest author submission. Cointact the author by eMail. ]
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God, i sure hope you are not an American citizen. You should like a jealous Mexican or back stabbing Canadian. Stay in your country and keep out of mine. If you are an American, let me offer to pay your air fair out of here forever.
196 days ago by Redneck
I did my tour in Vietnam, champ, and I’ll say anything I please.
I love my country and I want it back.
Be sure to vote for the Republicans again and send your job overseas. We have gas ‘shortages’ and ExxonMobile just posted the largest profit any company ever posted, in the history of the world. They took that money right out of your pocket, Redneck.
Keep driving your pickup. I’m sure things will be just fine. Buy a new one. If you don’t shop, the ter’rists win. The president said so.
Be sure to buy one of those subprime mortgages, too, so the banks can screw you better than the insurance company can.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.
Cheers,
Scumby, champion of the ugly truth, irritant to the deluded.
196 days ago by scumby the author
Uh, the racism/xenophobia (look that one up) is pretty telling. Also – I think when you wrote “You should like a back stabbing…etc” you really meant “You sound like a blah blah…etc”
Hey – You didn’t go to school under the “No Child Left Behind” program under these Republicant’s, did you?
I really meant Republicants
196 days ago by scumby