Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens has reversed the anti-war complaint "No blood for oil," He's upset that U.S. energy companies aren't getting enough oil for American blood----and U.S. taxpayer dollars. He complains that it's going to China instead.
Reuters quotes Pickens:
"They're opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world ... We're entitled to it," Pickens said of Iraq's oil. "Heck, we even lost 5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion dollars." . . .
"We leave there with the Chinese getting the oil," Pickens said.
Breathtaking, no? Shrieks are of course rising all over the world. What about the Iraqis, the widows, the veterans, the poisoned, diseased, disabled, disinherited? And what about U.S. taxpayers, who no doubt could have solarized every home in the country, and, replaced every gas guzzling car in every garage with an electric, for a trillion, five hundred billion dollars.
But Pickens is angry and indignant that he's not getting his.
It's hard to find words for the scale of Pickens's sense of entitlement, especially considering that, with $3 billion, he's already the 117th richest man on earth.
But, we can at least thank him for reminding us, yet again, that the Iraq War, like the Afghanistan War, and the covert U.S. war in Africa, a.k.a., AFRICOM, are not about terrorism; they're about oil--and natural gas.
I just sent a note to my friend Cindy Sheehan to ask how much oil she thinks T. Boone Pickens, and/or Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Koch Industries, etc., are entitled to for Casey Sheehan's life, plus 4,000 more and counting?
And, what she thinks Pickens is really entitled to, besides life in prison, maybe Abu Ghraib? At the very least, irreversible commitment to a hospital for the criminally insane.
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Hopefully this will demonstrate the truth to those holding up Pickens as some sort of heroic figure. He's no different than any of the rest of the oil and natural gas industry. It's all about the dollars and cents with no common sense whatsoever. Drill baby, drill. Oy.
I was curious about the last picture and googled it. Unlike Topix, the Examiner doesn't allow links, but if you were to google the name on the headstone, you'd likely find it as the first link under 'image' search.
I think he's down to one billion so youmight start there
if Iraq has 120B in reserves at 80 per barrel then theres what ten trillion dollars of oil there.More likely theres 200b in reserves so figure alot of wealth there that will be pumped for those that cant afford the 5 million that Jen Aniston spent to solar her Cal. house
Great piece Ann. Thanks!
Don't get angry..ORGANIZE.
Join us in a protest demanding an End to War Profiteering!
Demonstrate on Tuesday, October 27
from Noon to 2pm
in Farragut Square Park (1634 I St. NW; Wash DC)
As the mercenary industry gathers in DC for their annual summit, we will gather in Farragut Square Park to say NO! to mercenaries profiting off of wars and the suffering of the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa.
U.S. Corporations are making billions off of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout Africa. On October 27, activists and supporters of human rights, peace and justice, sustainable development, and true human security will be speaking out about abuses by private military contractors in these regions, poets and musicians will help us make some noise, and we will shine the spotlight on the mercenaries' meeting in DC during a critical time for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the escalation of U.S. military involvement in Africa.
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