Maybe one day…

…we’ll go back in time, back to when we still believed what the administration and the dwindling percentages still want us to believe.

Back before we learned about the new Iraqi oil law, which takes Iraq’s oil wealth out of the hands of the people and turns over the oil supply to a “Federal Oil and Gas Council,” which is made up literally of Big Oil leaders.

Back before we learned that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and back before we groaned every time Bush or Cheney tried to keep making that claim six years later.

Back before we could exploit the deaths of soldiers to defend those who would personally profit, and paint those who would dare challenge the injustice as disrespectful and damaging.

Maybe one day, we’ll all be so beaten down by empty rhetoric and doublespeak that we’ll collectively return to a 2003 mental state when it was so much easier and more convenient to just believe what the profiteers wanted us to believe.

But in the meantime, here’s Jeff Koterba’s Memorial Day cartoon from The Omaha World Herald:

In this space used to be a cartoon, which included a drawing of a monument that says “Iraq-Afghanistan Memorial” which then includes the lines “This was not, as some erroneously believed, a war for oil. To those who fought to overthrow a maniacal dictator, and most importantly, to stop terrorists where they dwell, we thank you.” Then there’s a little caption that says “Maybe one day…”


Read more on the Iraqi oil bill:

The Asia Times
The Independent (UK)
Democracy Now

0 Responses to Maybe one day…

  1. billy says:

    Does he actually buy that crap or is he just pandering to OWH editorial staff and the true believers still left out there? I read that comic today and was just thoroughly confused. I mean, how can anyone outside the GWB administration still be so wrong?

  2. Adam Danger says:

    I’d like Koterba to name a single Iraqi who made a terroristic threat against the American homeland prior to March of 2003.

    And, the number of U.S. casualties suffered before the end of major combat operations on May 1, 2003 was 140 (icasualties.org). That would be 140 troops who died overthrowing a dictator. The additional 3316 died for. . . ?

  3. John Hamilton says:

    Adam, they died in an effort to secure a country, support a fledgling democracy, and root out terrorist networks that have slipped into the vacuum of power in Iraq. They died serving their country honorably and for a worthwhile cause.

  4. Adam Danger says:

    John,
    Country insecurity for which they are dispatched as security forces: our fault.
    Fledgling national government: we disabled the old one (I’m not debating whether or not the old one was one thing or another, but it was theirs), our fault.
    Vacuum of power in Iraq: see “disabled the old one;” our fault.

    I would never argue for a second that our men and women of the armed forces have been anything but honorable, loyal, and steadfast as a whole. They’re put there because of the failure of our government to prevent their current security mission.

  5. Cal says:

    It truly is amazing that there are still people who believe this war is about protecting America from terrorists, and not about gaining control of Iraq’s vast oil reserves.

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