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All together now . . .
Put any song on repeat for long enough and people will eventually start humming. Although this popular tune denies logic (inspections are working, Iraq is totally hamstrung) and the facts (no weapons have been found) the official lies have swayed public opinion in more than one country. But the cover has frayed badly, and even most hawks now admit the obvious: this is a straight-up resource war, for oil.
Pessimists who warned that the 21st century would be a century of resource wars ? for energy, for water, for fertile land ? look scarily prescient as the US digs in around Iraq?s mighty oil reserves
The Bush administration is chock-full of veteran oil industry heavyweights, all well-versed in global energy trends. They all know the world is about to enter the downside of global oil production. They know US dependence on foreign oil will rise to as much as 70 percent in coming years.
They know Iraq sits on the world?s second-largest untapped oil fields. For them, this war is about staking out valuable turf prior to the chaos likely to accompany the looming era of ?permanent oil shock.?
The Prague Pill
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