Katrina on Ted Kopple (Duh It's The Oil Stupid!)

Anybody with any honesty or journalistic integrity had to admit from the beginning that this war was about oil. With men like Scott Ridder and Joe Wilson out there telling us that there is no way Saddam was a threat to us, what other reason could there have been? It was all lies from the beginning and now, with the oil corporations making record breaking profits, we can see what it was really all about. Bush and Cheney stink of blood and oil but they'll be laughing all the way to the bank, no matter what becomes of Iraq.

"In the New York Times on Friday, Ted Koppel – now a columnist free from the strictures of ABC-Disney – lays it on the line in examining the undeniable role of oil in our continuing occupation of Iraq. Koppel notes, "….America's rapt attention to the security of the Persian Gulf is what it has always been. It's about the oil."

Hmmm….I seem to recall hearing some ideas along those lines – years ago – from the likes of Michael Moore in Farenheit 9/11 and many other lefties & progressives as well. They were each summarily dismissed – not just by the right but also by many in the MSM – as "unpatriotic," "conspiracy-theorists," "paranoid," "un-American," "simplistic," "leftists," etc."