Did John Bolton Just Admit All These Wars Are For Oil?

[Reform]

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Airing Date Oct.22, 2011

" The critical oil and natural gas producing region that we fought so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing that supply or having it available at very high prices "

Sounds like it !

Just love it when a Neocon slips up !

[emilyg]

1. Good. Truth.

[Electric Monk]

48. Operation Iraqi Liberation

O I L

[emilyg]

59. You got it.

[They_Live]

2. Bolton looks terrible

and that gives me warm fuzzies.

Fuggin Asshat.

[Crowman1979]

5. I always thought he looked like s*** myself.

It sad that we can't come together on how bad John Bolton looks. :rofl:

[pbrower2a]

43. Even worse

Even worse is what he thinks -- that Arabs in those countries that have the oil are nothing more than objects to be manipulated to serve us or to be tamed when they resist our intentions. John Bolton just exposed what American foreign policy will be under a Reactionary Party administration -- an attempt to impose American corporate power upon people who don't want it in their countries.

Grab the resources cheaply and control the market... it's bad enough here, and just imagine what it will be to people who don't share America's depraved and superstitious culture.

[Scuba]

3. Did we ever doubt it?

[Amonester]

18. No, and the fact that it's not that POS and his ilk who die in their folly.

Only the youths who cannot afford college anymore, like most of the 99% these days.

[Scuba]

20. POS? Piece of santorum?

[Amonester]

23. Yep.

Also known as "$cumbag". :rofl:

[asjr]

4. I've always wanted to pin him down, grab a

razor and wipe that bush hanging over his mouth off.

[LateTrade]

6. Why stop there? Let's just do what guys in my college did to guys who were such

freaking assholes as him? We took the pants and underpants off, and finished the shave.

Kid probably transferred to another college within a month or two. He knew he was a self-centered asshole, from that moment forward in his life. (We didn't do it to small skinny folks, or feminine kids, we protected them!...only the self-centered ones, and only a couple, got a complete shave, head to toe!)

[Quantess]

13. Now I have the imagery of a shorn John Bolton without hair or mustache.

[Amonester]

21. tut...tut...tut

You do know about the 'bullying' problem, eh?

I mean... Have you ever thought that it's a bit because of the un-corrected 'bullying problem' that too many asshole bullies become neo-con$?

[LateTrade]

7. Honesty, AT LAST!!

And Herman Cain is equally dumb. (appears at the end of vid) As if we didn't know

[slipslidingaway]

8. knr - sure sounds like it! and Kucinich was right ...

September 13, 2002: Kucinich: Iraq No Threat, Oil a Factor in Push for War

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=complete_timeline_of_the_2003_invasion_of_iraq_377#complete_timeline_of_the_2003_invasion_of_iraq_377

[trumad]

26. Kucinich was right?

Uh no duh...and so were 99 percent of the 2002 DU members.

[slipslidingaway]

63. True, but many members of Congress said nothing :( n/t

[Metta]

9. Yep. Naked imperialism, with a helping of arrogance thrown in.

Happy karma, Johnny.

[Firebrand Gary]

10. Bolton is an ass.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Why yes, indeed he did."that we fought so hard to protect".

I especially love the way the Neo cons are SO upset that Iran would want to to have some say in oil in their area of the world.

[Amonester]

19. If only it was the Neo cons who only enrolled in these 'protections'

of big oil's 1% 'intere$t$'

Yeah, we all know how fast they all 'volunteer' to avoid 'sacrificing' there...

It's a lot ea$ier to send the 99% offspring using false justifications (IOW, LIE$).

[defendandprotect]

12. "3 Days of the Condor" --- who could deny this?

Obviously, we want to take over the entire ME --

We've been bombing Iraq for more than 30 years ---

We're still after Iran --

We're still in Afghanistan --

Israel has been our centerpiece of war mongering after we armed RW Fundi Israelis and

buried peace loving Israel!!

[underpants]

17. That's it, isn't it? This whole damn thing was about oil! Wasn't it? Wasn't it?

Joe Turner: What does Operations care about a bunch of damn books? A book in Dutch. A book out of Venezuela. Mystery stories in Arabic.
Atwood: Wait!
Joe Turner: What the hell is so important about...
(He stops as he sees the connection)
Joe Turner: Oil fields. Oil. That's it, isn't it? This whole damn thing was about oil! Wasn't it? Wasn't it?
Atwood: Yes, it was

[defendandprotect]

52. That was 1975 --- !! Time flies when you're having fun! 35 years of warmongering in ME ....

Nixon armed RW hawks in Israel -- and buried peace loving Israelis --

and we've been funding their warmongering which has benefited our goals

since then. Evidently Israel and US weapons production is so closely

intertwined that you can barely tell the difference between them. We've

even stored nuclear missiles in Israel.

Control of the ME and its oil was certainly the aim.

Iran is still on the agenda -- and Uganda?


No oil -- no wars --

And that's why drilling in Gulf -- BP and oil spills -- are a national security

issue and can't be treated as a threat to the environment!

That's the insanity of Imperialism and Capitalism -- !!

Both are suicidal --



And, it is simply, again, Capitalism --

Capitalism is intended to move the wealth and natural resources of nations

from the many to the few and it has done that successfully all over the world.


:nuke:



Thank you!! Good to see other fans of this movie --

:hi:

[dotymed]

14. This speech absolutely must go out on "Armed Forces Radio,"

and every publication that is geared towards our military. To many, this will not be a surprise. The one's who consider themselves "pragmatists" and many other sociopaths, are in our military and know that they are "stealing for the man."

Just as General Smedley Butler admitted, decades ago, they do the dirty work for the (now trans-national) corporations. Still, the majority of these military personnel believe that what they do is all about patriotism and helping to spread democracy. IMO, when they hear the truth, from Ambassador Bolton, they will be enraged and look at their service in a different light. they may realize that the main difference between them and paid mercenaries is mainly that they thought they were fighting for the right reasons. Mercenaries have (at some point) realized that they are fighting for someone's profit and decided that they deserve to get their share of the profit. This, IMO, is why many of them lose their "humanity." Knowing that you are killing for pay instead of country forces people to kill quickly, ask no questions and to look out for #1. That is the perfect military person. That may be why "they" have hirred these mercenaries to brutalize civilian populations, people of honor (most of our military) would not do this. The "bottom line" of the corporations depend on the complete subjugation of the country that they want to steal from.

This is just one reason that our government must be completely changed. I do believe that when our military hear the truth, straight from "the horse's mouth", that their attitudes will change. They may decide to join OWS.

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. he is so ignorant. He doesn't even know that we went to war to liberate people from tyranny and to

protect our own people from terrorism. How could he possibly not know that?

[Enthusiast]

40. LOL!

:rofl:

[ScottLand]

16. Wait, I thought American lives were only precious until they

came out of the womb.

[90-percent]

22. Molly Ivans

once said "Republicans are not PRO LIFE. They are PRO BIRTH."

Sums it up for me.

-90% Jimmy

[ScottLand]

27. Thanks! I loved Molly Ivins and I really miss her.

We lost a great voice when she passed.

[Amonester]

24. That's the 'dividing' tool they use...

And, it seems like it's working wonders...

[ScottLand]

28. And yet they accuse us of being the divisive ones.

[Amonester]

30. They don't know anything about Psychological Projection.

It's their Achilles' heel.

[Enrique]

25. here's a reminder how explicitly they denied this motive

One spin I've heard is, "of course we want to control the oil. The antiwar people were accusing us of stealing the oil".

Well, at the time, they denied wanting to control the oil as well.

http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=1946

(...)

Al Jazeera: If you go to Iraq, your forces, how long do you envisage staying on there?

(...)

The United States is not interested in the oil in that region from Iraq. That's just utter nonsense. It is not interested in occupying any country. We are interested in having our forces go home. But we recognize that a coalition might be necessary for a short period until a government of Iraq could be created by the Iraqis.

Q.Lots of people ask why is the United States of America the only super power in the world targeting Iraq. They say well, Iraq is a pot of black gold and it is in a strategic position which would facilitate for you the next stage of your agenda for the region.

(...)

A.You used the word black gold. I've seen the same kinds of articles and suggestions that that's the case.

You know, I've been around economics long enough to know that if somebody owns oil they're going to want to sell it. If they want to sell it, it's going to end up in the market. And it doesn't matter if they sell it to Country A or Country B. If they sell it, it's going to be in the market and that's going to affect the world price. Money is fungible and oil is fungible. This is not about oil, and anyone who thinks it is, is badly misunderstanding the situation.

Al Jazeera: But it depends on who controls the oil.

Rumsfeld: Anyone who controls it wants to sell it. It doesn't matter. That is not a problem. If you own -- If a bad person owns the oil and a good person owns the oil -- different oil -- and the bad person doesn't want to sell it to you but the good person is willing to, it doesn't matter because then the good person sells it to you. You're not going to be buying this person's oil but this person's going to be selling it to somebody else. And the world price will be the same. Everyone will have the oil they need. They aren't going to horde it, they're not going to keep it in the ground. They need the money from the oil. So it's not a problem.


(...)

[AlbertCat]

29. Who the hell cares what John Bolton thinks....

.... about anything? Who cared when he was "in the loop"? I mean, is this useless has-been all Fox News can scrape up?

Fox News is not only misinformation... Newt Gingrich.... John McCain... it's like a time tunnel of irrelevance!

The whole GOP is!

[pbrower2a]

44. Regurgitation

John Bolton does nothing more than regurgitate the lines dictated by his puppeteers at right-wing "think tanks".

This guy could be Secretary of State in a Reactionary administration -- you are forewarned.

[L. Coyote]

31. "We fought so many wars to protect our economy...." Now, the debt is ruining it!

So, they accomplished the very opposite of their goal. Typical of the BUSH JUNTA!

[Javaman]

32. We fight wars for oil.

the US military is the single largest user of fossil fuels in the USA. The Air force alone accounts for over half of that.

Why do we fight wars?

We fight wars for oil so the military can get oil to fight more wars,

[valerief]

33. Yep. It doesn't matter now. They've got their govt all locked in place. No danger of any of these

assholes to face retribution. They are protected by men with guns, a shilling media, and a parroting public.

[griloco]

34. The failure is W's for not making Iraq 51st state with Cheney as Guv n/t

[Lint Head]

35. It's oil Mr. Bunny! It's oil!

[The Wizard]

36. Bolton may have exposed his real position

But when questioned he'll say just the opposite and no one in the media will question his lying.

[The Wizard]

37. Failed neocon arithmetic

Spend trillions to kill millions to save billions for the 1% who constitute war and oil profiteers.

[indepat]

38. So $147 per barrel must not be a very high price

:patriot:

[NICO9000]

39. He is the walrus

goo goo ga joooob...

Actually, he's just another neocon POS who can't shuffle off this mortal coil fast enough for me, although I wouldn't mind seeing him suffer with cancer for a few years before he croaked.

[Jack Rabbit]

41. Yes, he did

Invading another country to secure its markets with favorable trade deals by force is called imperialism, Mr. Bolton. It is an institution on a par with slavery. In slavery, a man's right to collect wages for his labor are abrogated in favor of a "superior" master. In imperialism, the right an entire nation to market and profit from its natural resources are abrogated in favor of a "superior" mother country.

And you, Mr. Bolton, believe that children of America's ghettos and barrios should die in your place in imperial wars that you favor because you think you are "superior" to them.

The slave is exalted above his master. Each citizen of a colony is exalted above the imperialist. And the children of America's poor neighborhoods are exalted about the war monger who sends them to die in pointless wars for a rich man's profit.

[swilton]

42. Does anyone need to tell us this!

Wake up people!

[Goldstein1984]

45. Oops!!

Unfortunately, it's not only Neocons who confuse "protecting America's vital national interests" with defense.

We're sending 100 American "advisors" into Central Africa out of a sudden concern for human rights and stability in that reguion. Why the sudden concern? Reports of up to 6 billion barrels of oil reserves in that area. Or maybe it's just a coincidence.

[sandyj999]

46. Oh John I think you let the cat out of the bag. Whatever that means. We knew it all along. nt

[bvar22]

47. If the American People actually GOT the Oil,

I could understand it,
NOT Support it, but understand.

But The American people don't Get the Oil.
The Oil (and other resources including "Free market" Slave Labor)
goes to the Global Corporations.

The American People PAY for The Oil with our Blood & Treasure,
but the LOOT goes to the RICH.
"They" will be glad to SELL some oil to the American People for as much PROFIT as they can gouge,
IF we're lucky.

The American People PAY for The Oil twice.




Solidarity99!
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[livingonearth]

50. So true!

Not only do we pay for it twice, but we get to have all sorts of related problems like deficits and a crappy economy.

[livingonearth]

49. You mean it wasn't all about "freedom"?

:wow:

[Yon_Yonson]

54. I wanted to believe it was about curbing the expansion of terrorism into the free world!

:wow: :sarcasm:

[Plucketeer]

51. Will someone PLEASE....

hand Bolton a rifle and a passport so he can go guard Exxon's interests there???

[Zen Democrat]

53. Trump already let the cat out of the bag. He advocated "go in - grab the oil - get out"

and the Republican faithful loved it. In fact, I don't think they ever got that cat into the bag in the first place!

[AntiFascist]

55. and people are surprised by this?

we truly are gullible.

[hulka38]

56. In 2003, Krauthammer wrote a piece admitting

neocon foreign policy was resource/oil driven self interest while criticizing liberal foreign policy as undermining U.S. self interests by being averse to oil wars. Occasionally they let they let the cat out of the bag.

[Quixote1818]

57. Bolton strikes me as someone who could murder without conscious

He seems to be heartless and only concerned with money and ego.

[Mosaic]

58. War is a racket

And it's about time we grew up and stopped having them or dismissing them. If some Americans are imperialists here or on the wrong side, damn you. I hate war, and I hate people who look the other way when scum like this support it for all the wrong reasons.

[lg59kis]

60. me too

Hope these slip-ups keep on coming

[1776Forever]

61. I think most of us knew that - It is those who are listening to Fox & people like Hannity that think

this was patriotic. There are so many that are and will suffer from this for years. Really really sad:(

[TBF]

62. Just saw this and bumping it up - what did y'all think the wars were for? Duh. nt

[Gman]

64. Does anyone really think it was about anything else?

At least he quit dancing around what was common sentiment among anyone not drinking the Kool-Aid at the time.