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what i do not understand is the linkage between the tanking situation and iraq and oil prices more broadly.
i understand direction no. 1 taken by the thread--the actions of everybody's favorite war profiteers at halliburton--but not the link to the ongoing spiked gas prices.
i understand direction no. 2 as well: the question of whether there is a way to use oil as a wedge to continue supporting the iraq debacle. i still haven't found a better book than michael klare's "resource wards" on american energy policy--there is little doubt that the invasion of iraq fits into the logic of long-term strategies centered around securing oil supplies that have shaped a significant aspect of american foriegn policy of the last 30 years or so. at the same time, this was not the way the war was sold...and the problems with the sales job, the deceptions upon which it was based, and the debacle that the bush people unleashed on themselves, on the americans in the military, on iraq, on the region, and on the planet have been rehearsed above and elsewhere.
i find it interesting to see ace trying to work with the fragments of rationale that the bush administration now relies on to continue fobbing off its self-defeating policies on the people. i think he presents an unwinnable case as well as could be expected.
but i still do not see any actual argument for or data about the linkage between what is happening in iraq and oil prices.
i am obviously not saying that i am suspicious about the existence of such links--i would just like to know what they are.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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