No brainer. Why do we need Palast to tell us the emperor has no clothes? I think people have drank Rev. James Jones' (a.k.a. Karl Rove) Kool-Aid. It's the elephant in the living room that no one in the family wants to see. Rove/Cheney wanted the oil, therefore world conquest, and Rupert Murdoch want control of communications in the Middle East add up to 1000's of lives and billions of U.S. tax dollars for Halliburton.

Why is no one holding G.W. Bush and his administration (lets not forget Congress) accountable for lying to the American people on reasons to go to Iraq? Has all the other "scandals" muddled our brains? All the reasons given for invading Iraq have been proven false..there were/are no WMD's, there was no connection between Hussien and al Quada..Bush had plans to invade Iraq, months before 9/11..(which given my suspicious nature..also indicates his complicity if not, actual planning of 9/11..as an "excuse" to invade) I see this as the number one question that needs to be addressed..all else (oil, the missing 9 bn, torture/death, war-profiteering) its all because of the original lies....make them accountable for the original lie..all else will fall into place after that.....

MIDDLEEAST.ORG - MER - Washington - 17 March: With a barrel of oil now selling for more than ever before in history the refusal in practice (rather than word) of the OPEC cartel, itself largely made up of regimes the Americans have nurtured and worked with for decades, to take big steps to lower the price has surprised many.

But the reasons for this are probably at least two-fold. First there are many associated with the Bush/Cheney regime, the big oil giants, and the U.S. supported 'client regimes', who are all swallowing and hoarding the billions of petrodollars as never before. At the same time the OPEC cartel has become aware of the ongoing Neocon plan -- and as with all Neocon plans the Israelis are involved -- to create a 'New World Order' which could in time bust up the OPEC cartel and pump up Western economies on a sea of energy resources more under American domination than ever.

It's been one big lie and one major disaster after another from the strange Jewish/Zionist Neocon and Christian Fundamentalist coalition that took power in the United States as a result of the Supreme Court's 5 to 4 decision that put George Bush and Dick Cheney in power in January 2001. But the true consequences of what they have done are only now seeping out from secret meetings; and the huge price to be paid in blood and treasure will continue on for years and decades to come.

Ironically most Americans -- even the small percentage among them who try to be informed and aware -- remain oblivious to what has been done, by who, and for whom, as nearly all the major exposees during the election campaign and since have been broadcast abroad in the U.K., Canada, and Europe, but not in the United States.
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http://middleeast.org/video.htm 2 free to watch videos of interest if you want a fast lesson in world politics and the M.E.

Secret US plans for Iraq's oil

By Greg Palast
Reporting for Newsnight on BBC on 17 March

The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed.

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Palast is great, but I'm worried that with the cuts to BBC he may lose this avenue of communication. Personally I think it is a problem when a capitalist government has that much control over the funding of a news organization. Although I like the BBC and CBC I am turing my energy, and funds to Independent news organizations like http://coanews.org