The song "One Tin Soldier" popped into my head for some reason today. I did a youtube search and came up with this video, which to me tells the truth about our war with Iraq. It's all about the oil. Our soldiers and other innocent civilians are paying the price, for what has been a very profitable venture for Big Oil.
HOUSTON (AP) - Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company—$39.5 billion—even as earnings for the last quarter of 2006 declined 4 percent.
The 2006 profit topped Exxon Mobil's own previous record of $36.13 billion set in 2005. After 9/11, pay levels of defense and energy CEOs soared. According to the IPS, CEOs of the top 34 defense contractors saw their average compensation double, from $3.6 million in 2002 to $7.2 million in 2005. Since September 11, these 34 executives have pocketed a combined total of nearly a billion dollars, which the IPS estimates would be “enough to cover the entire wage bill for more than a million Iraqis for a year.” Average defense CEO pay was 308 times the pay received by a deployed US Army private in 2005, $25,000
The real terrorist won the war "Exxon, Shell, Mobile and BP". If Osama was in Afghanistan, why did we go to Iraq? Could it be because Iraq had oil and Afghanistan didn't.
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