who will warn Americans about the coming oil wars ???

[welshTerrier2]

the great oil war is heating up rapidly ... Americans are aware of the disruptions of the OPEC oil market ... Some may even be aware of oil existing in Venezuela and the risks that neo-cons like to argue that Chavez poses ...

But most Americans are not familiar with oil in the southern states of the old Soviet Union ... they probably know nothing about the oil wars in the Sudan that have led to the human catastrophe in Darfur ... and they probably know nothing about oil in Ecuador ...

as industrialized countries fight for increasing shares of dwindling and more expensive supplies, global competition, especially from India and China, for oil is heating up rapidly ... absent a quick response and enlightened leadership, we eventually will face horrible military confrontations, collapsing global economies, and a major disruption of our way of life ... it may already be too late to react ... and still, we blunder on with our gas guzzlers, our pro-corporate energy policies and leaders who sell our government to the highest bidder (i.e. big oil) ... who will warn America about the coming oil wars and teach us of their likely consequences if the opposition Party fails to make the case ????? who will inspire Americans to demand a change in direction ?????

as an aside, I noticed that Rumsfeld visited South America just a few short weeks ago ... since that time, there have been two plane crashes: one in Peru and the other a Venezualen airliner ... probably just a coincidence ...

anyway, the following story talks about a very local response, in Ecuador, to the imperialistic abuses of big oil ... when the locals fight back against big oil, can a visit from the US military or US intelligence be far behind? better start studying those maps of South America ... is this how Americans want to interact with the rest of the world??

source: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-28T012530Z_01_SCH805107_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ECUADOR-DC.XML

Protesters who crippled Ecuador's vital oil industry earlier this month threatened on Saturday to resume their attacks, accusing energy companies of changing the terms of a settlement reached on Thursday.

Protest leaders said they would meet on Sunday in the eastern oil town of Francisco de Orellana to decide whether to resume dynamiting pipelines and vandalizing pumping equipment in their attempt to force companies to invest more in the poor Amazon communities where they operate. <skip>

Oil is Ecuador's No. 1 export. The country is South America's biggest supplier to the United States after Venezuela.

Earlier this week, the protesters agreed to a "good neighbor" pact with the government and private oil companies, promising to halt the attacks in exchange for more local investment. <skip>

"The oil pipelines are very long and fragile," he said. "Every kilometer of pipeline cannot be protected."

[getmeouttahere]

1. How does BushCo think they are going to fight all these wars?

I won't speak for anyone else, but I would rather be dead or in jail than fight BushCo's oil wars. We could have chosen the right course, 30 years ago, to develop alternative energy. Now it will either cost us a lot out of our already shrinking wallets, or it will cost us our way of life or our lives. Does anyone else wonder who is going to fight for BushCo?

[pauldp]

2. They hope to keep suckering SUV driving flag wavers

with propaganda and the occasional politically appropriate terrorist attack.

[Skink]

3. Private corporations will out bid Governments for their best soldiers....

never the less the American Military industrial complex will profit greatly.

[welshTerrier2]

4. they already have ...

check out this thread about Halliburton's army in Darfur:

source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2039014&mesg_id=2039014

"Oil companies and exploration companies like Halliburton wield political and sometimes military power."

[Totally Committed]

10. When you read about "independent contractors" being killed or

taken hostage... this is who they're talking about.

TC

[wli]

5. they already have, c.f. BCCI, Blackwater, Halliburton, et al n/t

[jokerman93]

9. Can't think of too many

Maybe the end-timers?

[wli]

6. no one, the media blackout will continue as planned

The psyops officers stationed in every major TV news outlet will not allow anyone to speak of it on national or cable TV.

[rman]

7. what do you mean *coming* oil wars?

Yugoslavia: oil pipe line
Afghanistan: oil pipe line
Iraq: oil fields

[welshTerrier2]

8. point well taken ...

of course, the problem, even with the wars you cited, is that the American people have not been told the truth about them even by their own government and even by the Democratic "opposition" Party ...

until their is a massive public outcry to change the way we address our energy crisis, nothing will change ... it's too bad it's going to take a disaster, instead of proactive leadership, to bring that public outcry about ...

[CANDO]

11. We will.

I've been educating family and friends for the past four plus years about Peak Oil and PNAC and how this whole corrupt scenario of the last five years has been pretty much pre-determined. For example, my wife was wondering why Pat Robertson attacked Hugo Chavez this past week. I said quite simply, his country is a major oil producer and he has been at odds with our regime, hence Robertson carrying the administration's water in the media. Thanks to our "liberal media", we all now know that Hugo Chavez is a "communist" and a "strong-arm dictator", and the fact that Robertson advocates his assassination has been lost in the overall campaign to vilify Chavez.