Comments on: The Pelosi-Reid Plan to Abolish Iraq

By: Tony Christini

Tony Christini — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:20:09 +0000

The US had access to Iraqi oil, could buy it like anyone else. But it could not control the oil flow without conquering Iraq. If you control the oil you can do whatever you want with prices and you can use it as an economic weapon against China and elsewhere. Of course it’s immoral and of course the military expenditure impoverishes the US and creates huge slaughter, but plenty of corporate America’s profits have gone through the roof during this war, even in the media – Fox News has doubled its profits. So, plenty of corporate America prospers while the US and the world and of course especially Iraqis suffer…

By: Tony Christini

Tony Christini — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:13:53 +0000

Level of oil supplies rising is irrelevent per my note above. Furthermore, if you want to raise prices and profits, you decrease oil supplies. Or create the uncertainty of a war.

By: Ed Darrell

Ed Darrell — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:25:42 +0000

Nor is there any evidence that our oil supplies from Iraq have risen significantly since the war, compared to prior to the war.

By: J.D.

J.D. — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:31:41 +0000

You seem to insinuate that the war in Iraq is over oil. many people think like you also. I never realized it until I was reading your post, but considering the huge cost of the war wouldn’t we be stepping on dollars to pick up pennies? In other words spending billions of dollars to get millions of dollars? And if so, given economic law wouldn’t the price of gas go down (supply and demand)?

By: Tony Christini

Tony Christini — Wed, 09 May 2007 06:51:39 +0000

Why a shocker? Pelosi and Reid are leaders in perpetuating the ongoing slaughter. They see it differently of course, though the facts plainly do not support their view. No antiwar argument has convinced them – why would mine? Nihilism is terrible, in my view. Libratory anarchist tendencies have shown great potential. I view such tendencies as democracy actually manifesting itself, people working together to meet common needs….

Socio-politically engaged art, etc, does help raise consciousness and awareness; it strengthens and moves people to action. There’s a long history of this.

By: Werner Simon

Werner Simon — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:33:41 +0000

Your view of Pelosi-Reid is a shocker! How would you encourage them to your point of view? Would you try to communicate with them if you had acccess?Are nihlism or anarchy solutions to real problems;literature,theatre & poetry may get some people to pay attention! (Last 30 days, I’ve read Nemesis by Chalmers Johnson,Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill and just finished American Fascists by Chris Hedges. How these voices can get into the mainstreammedia (MSM) in depth beyond a book review is a problem that urgently needs to be solved.)

By: Tony Christini

Tony Christini — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:33:07 +0000

A lot of thought (and action) has long since gone into progressive “ideology,” if you want to call it that. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of many fruitful results, and a good building block: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

By: Vitaly Purto

Vitaly Purto — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:07:12 +0000

Everything has its plan, a brief description if you will. For living beings their plans are called DNA. Plans for living nations or civilizations are called ideology. Not a flickering day to day political noise but some set of ideas transcending individual and even family lives, designed to make coherent whole of those nations and civilizations. So far such a task of formulation of American ideology is outsourced to private interests. Most obviously American ideology is outsourced to churches, mosques and synagogues, less obviously but most fundamentally it outsourced to Mammon. Our most influential ideology is ideology of shopping, wage slavery and submission to dictates of wealth.
Our immediate goal is to start thinking of ideology not as a dirty word but very, very seriously. For society without ideology is like map without longitudes and latitudes – totally purposeless and thereby dead, even if still kicking.
I am not sure we have much more time left before we awake from stupor of last 60 years. Thank Bush, Iraq catastrophe may wake us up.