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By Mike Cuenca | March 21, 2003
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Even if you believe this war is really about some sort of
morally-justified "regime change"; that it's not really about gaining
power over oilfields for future exploitation and economic dominance,
one can't deny that it's also about the consumption of petroleum right
now, directly as a result of the war. Imagine how much fuel is being
consumed right now in the tens of thousands of gas-guzzling vehicles
and aircraft swarming around Baghdad as machinery of death. The U.S.
has built a pipeline from Kuwait City to the Iraq border, so that they
can suck up the fuel as fast as they can burn it.
Is this really a coincidence? We should investigate how much of the
profits from the consumption of this petroleum winds up in the accounts
of the individual members of the Bush/Cheney regime. But we'll probably
have to wait for that investigation until after we succeed in our own
regime change/election next year.
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