News spin on Iraqi oil deals exonerates US regime's war crimes

[JackRiddler]

Sample of what you'll be reading and hearing the next few days, currently on the news.google.com front page:

Iraq awards oil deals, but no boon for US invaders
Reuters - Mohammed Abbas, Missy Ryan - ‎1 hour ago‎
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States spent blood and treasure on an Iraq invasion critics said was for oil, but US oil majors were largely absent from an Iraqi auction of oil deals snapped up instead by Russian, Chinese and other firms...

Translation:

Bank robbers who came away with less swag than they expected must not have been bank robbers in the first place.

The point is not whether the US succeeded in fulfilling the plan as mapped out by Cheney and cohorts as they pored over maps of the Iraqi oil fields in the months prior to September 11, 2001. That was always an act of imperial hubris.

The US planned and launched an unprovoked aggressive war on Iraq, carpet-bombed, destroyed the infrastructure, poisoned the countryside, caused the deaths of a million people, organized death squads, oversaw ethnic cleansing and the flight of millions of refugees, and allowed US corporate profiteers to come away from this carnage with tens of billions of dollars - including billions in disappeared cash money.

Is it really a surprise that the Iraqi government chose to award the contracts to countries that did not attempt to destroy their nation? In the end, the criminals may have predictably lost the greatest prize of all, and this result was predictable to the sane among us. That makes no excuse for the criminals or their insane plan.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Don't put the cookies back in the cookie jar after you've broken them. n/t

[JackRiddler]

2. What does this even mean?

Who's in the cookie jar? Is this a reference to the US occupation, or to me? Or you?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. It's a reference to America's empire building and the resultant

blowback it produced.

[JackRiddler]

5. Okay, got it. I think. Thanks.

[whosinpower]

4. This means absolutely nothing

If the oil is still traded in US dollars.

Didn't Hussein switch - or threaten to switch trading to euro's?????? I think he did, and that is why George got all hot under the collar.

[JackRiddler]

6. kick

[Echo In Light]

7. Odd how few responses this warranted

[JackRiddler]

8. They could always start now. (-;

[JackRiddler]

9. another kick