I just Delicious-ed this piece in today’s WaPo from erstwhile Iraq war uber-hawk Jim Hoagland… But I clicked the Delicious before I read to the end of the piece, where Jimbo raises the intriguing possibility that Cheney might resign…. not because the Prez hasn’t been taking his advice much recently, but because,
- Bush… desperately now needs a vice president in stable physical, emotional and political health. That is the equation you want to be watching.
Hoagland is a very well-connected guy. This is getting interesting.
possible Cheney resignation
Oh Yah, after looting Iraqi oil for years and the continue coming decades as Iraqi oil law “Peace of Mind Law” drafted according to US Embassy in Baghdad those delicate are well informed what to do on behalf of GWB and Cheney Group.
Others will fellow suite as the Iraqi massive oil reserve is put in the pockets of these gangs oil thirsty guys.
As the old but still serviceable true joke has it: only a heartbeat separates George Dubya Bush from the Presidency of the United States.
Since the day Dick Cheney selected himself neophyte Dubya Bush’s Vice Presidential running mate and then surreptitiously changed his Texas residence to Wyoming to avoid Constitutional constraints, it has not taken rocket science to understand who rules the roost in the outlaw Cheney/Bush cabal. Deputy Dubya himself has actually admitted publicly without prompting that he sees “his line of work” as essentially “propaganda catapulter,” someone who “just repeats the same thing over and over again until the message sinks in.” One would think that the “well connected” Jim Hoagland knows this and yet still can refrain from laughing and vomiting simultaneously each and every time the woefully unqualified and singularly inarticulate Texas Tyro attempts and fails yet again to speak English from the teleprompter screen crawl supplied to him by Sheriff Dick Cheney.
I wonder if America will ever again have a President who can write his own speeches — simple and short ones that people can understand and remember — like Lincoln did on the back of an envelope on a train ride making his way to commemorate a battlefield cemetery/memorial at Gettysburg. The prospects do not, to say the least, look promising.
In fact, Sheriff Dick Cheney and Deputy Dubya Bush need to go — and quickly — for reasons of monumental perfidy and malicious malfeasance below and beneath the call of criminality. Lame and transparent excuses like “health concerns” and “wanting to spend more quality time with family” (long grown up, estranged, and dispersed in any event) only seem to pass muster with “well connected” government media shills like Jim Hoagland, David Broder, and their lemming likenesses.
As the village Sheriff said to the angry mob of torch-bearing villagers in the movie Young Frankenstein: “A riot is an ugly thing … and I think it is just about time that we had one.” Nothing about Dick Cheney’s heart has prevented him from taking over and running the American government into the ground. Nothing about his heart should prevent enraged and betrayed Americans from running him and his clueless puppet out of town, tarred and feathered, hanging upside down from a swaying pole. Ugly, yes; but long overdue. The worst of Nixon and Reagan combined deserve the worst in turn. They have shown no mercy or pity to others born or yet-unborn. They deserve none themselves. Thanks to these twin malefactors, the cynical definitions of Ambrose Bierce look only too commonly obvious about Americans today: namely, “Patriot, the dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors;” and “Patriotism, combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any man ambitious to illuminate his name.” I have in mind here specifially “patriot” American pundits like Thomas Friedman and Jim Hoagland, et al, who curry favor and “access” connection by carrying dirty water for the likes of Sheriff Dick Cheney and Deputy Dubya Bush.
Somewhere a poet waits on call
To pen a line for those in thrall
To bogus bullshit meant to stall
And cover with miasmic pall
Through chutzpah — or colossal gall —
The awful truth behind it all
Intriguing indeed. Now, if we can get Cheney to resign, THEN we the movement to impeach W. loses the one thing that had, ’til now, held it back (the fear of who would replace W) ;-}
Say Michael, as for a politician who writes his own speeches, how about Jim Webb?
And still in the realm of fantasy, who’dya think W. would nominate to play the role of Gerald Ford? eh? Hatch? Lieberman? Condi? Jebb?
I’d bet Jebb – he’d be more likely to dole out the pardons generously.
Who Will Get the Oil?
But is Big Oil really poised for total victory in Iraq? Such an outcome is hard to imagine, at least in the near term, given the likelihood of opposition from Iraqis and, more important, the spiraling chaos: Iraq is a society in meltdown with no real state to speak of. Many politicians have fled Iraq, rarely risking trips back to Baghdad, so even achieving a basic parliamentary quorum can be difficult. Controlling and profiting from Iraq’s oil has been the goal of the oil majors, but they do not write history unmolested by the momentum of events and competing agendas.
Nor does the proposed oil law simply serve Iraq up on a plate to the oil giants. One London-based oil analyst who expected a more decentralized and free-market law called it “bloody confused.” On key questions of foreign investment and regional decentralization versus centralized control, the law is vague but not all bad. In general terms it reaffirms state control over oil and binds Iraq’s Sunni center and Shiite south to the Kurdish north by re-creating a single Iraqi National Oil Company, which will in turn dole out oil income to the regions on a per-capita basis. This might help de-escalate sectarian conflict.
US VICE-PRESIDENT CHENEY SHARES OUT IRAQ’S OIL
Halliburton, an oil services company based in Bush’s home-state of Texas, which was formerly run by US Vice-President Dick Cheney, has already been awarded a contract by the US government to operate in post-war Iraq.[1]
“Reports in the Wall Street Journal suggested the
contracts could be worth as much as $900m.”[2]
Haliburton “has a history of government contracts” and will be a “leading beneficiary” of the war on Iraq. Mr Cheney should receive huge financial rewards for the war on Iraq through substantial investments in the corporation he once headed.
Iraq is currently the world’s second largest source of oil, but the majority of subterranean oil reserves have never been tapped. After the war, when US oil corporations have fully developed the oil industry’s potential, Iraq is expected to become the largest single supply of oil on Earth.
“The new oilfields, when developed, could produce up
to eight million barrels a day within a few years – thus
rivalling Saudi Arabia, the present kingpin of oil.”[3]
The world’s largest oil corporations are lining-up to exploit what could be the world’s greatest supply of oil, and the US government has ensured that companies owned and heavily invested in by America are first in the queue.[4]
SOURCES
Refer to original article
NOTE:
The cost of ONE OIL Barrel from Iraqi oil field =US$1.0
The cost of ONE OIL Barrel from Saudi oil field =US$2.50
The cost from US the cost of ONE OIL Barrel from US oil field =US$11.0
In reply to the comment above about Jim Webb writing his own speeches, I concur that he did a good job on presenting the Democratic Party’s response to another of George W. Bush’s lame State of the Onion speeches. Short and to the point, the Democrat-come-lately Senator Webb indicated in his remarks that he seems to have gotten over some of his former Reaganism and come around to the need of our government to care more about the common American people than the rich, stuffed-shirt swells that Republicans generally find in need of so much government subsidy.
Still, as my disagreements with Senator Webb go back to our differing respective experiences serving in Vietnam, I cautiously applaud his evolving transformation but retrain my skepticism about anyone with career militarism apparently part of his genetic constitution. So, “some good and some not-so-good” remains my suspended judgment about Senator Jim Webb, very much a work-in-progress. A definite improvement over the Republican Senator Allen he replaced, certainly, but he still remains far too patient, for my tastes, with the endemic Warfare Welfare and Makework Militarism that continues to enfeeble America and drive it onwards towards ever-deepening debt and subservience to the foreign interests of both Israel and China, to name only two beneficiaries of America’s military-industrial demise.
I haven’t read Jim Webb’s novels, primarily because I prefer the reality based world of history and literary criticism to the fantastical and fictional; and, in any event, I came to quite different conclusions about Vietnam (now known as IraqNam) than Jim Webb did and so many of his expressed views on that subject wouldn’t interest me no matter in what literary genre he chose to express them. As well, ANYONE who could EVER have supported or worked for the reactionary Republican Ronald Reagan has seriously unresolved intellectual, moral, and ethical issues — in my opinion — that I can only hope the Democratic Party can help cure for Jim Webb.
Now, if only the good Senator and his constipated colleagues will get off their dead asses and just (1) cut off any further funding for war and occupation in Iraq; (2) revoke the ridiculous and humiliating pack of lies and deceit euphemistically known as the “Authorization to use Force” against Saddam Hussein and Iraq; and (3) impeach both Dick Cheney and George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors so monumentally in excess of Bill Clinton’s private fellatio adventures that a mere prima-facie recitation of them (although requiring hours to verbally enunciate) should serve as irrefutable evidence for conviction and removal from the offices of trust they have so damned, disgraced, and dishonored.
A poet said it simply, once:
That power ill becomes a dunce;
That little minds and smaller hearts
Turn mean small boys to mean old farts;
And those who say they see the need
For patience with the evil breed
Write tales sometimes about themselves
That decorate unread bookshelves.