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Sith Lord Cheney and his oil minions, Evilburton, finally unmasked!

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Ok, not really, but news of Cheney's trip to Iraq and the way the NYT describes his purpose for being there, will surely dredge all that nonsense up again:

Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip Monday to Baghdad, where he plans to push Iraqi political leaders toward opening the country’s vast oil fields to international companies, a senior Bush administration official said.
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"Exploiting and controlling the Iraqi oil fields have been part of the American scheme for more than four years," said Hassan al-Rubaie, a member of parliament and senior member of Mr. Sadr’s political alliance. "Our presence in the parliament and among the Iraqi people will work with other national forces to stop this scheme."

See? "Itzallabouttheoilidiot!"™

It won't matter (and isn't mentioned in this piece [shock of all shocks]) that Cheney has been planned for this trip for quite some time. It' apparently irrelevant that he is "bound for Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and Turkey -- [and] will also pursue US diplomatic efforts to isolate Iran and prod US oil-exporting allies to help rein in skyrocketing prices," and that Iraq is just a "piece" of the master plan the White House left out of the press to improve Cheney's chances of getting in and out before a couple martyr-wannabes could put together a vest or a Pennske full of explosives to greet him when he touched down there.

More below the stinking fold...

It isn't mentioned anywhere in the Times piece just how freaking high gasoline and diesel fuel prices have jumped. Neither is it mentioned that domestic exploration has increased almost logarithmically over the past 2 years; profits from the eeevil rich oil companies are being re-invested, but we can't tell anyone that because we need everyone to believe the eeevil rich people are pocketing that money and further oppressing everyone else!

It's also irrelevant to the Times, apparently, that we are our own worst enemy when it comes to energy policy being trumped by environmentalists hell-bent on being green regardless the likelihood we'll go broke and be bought out by foreign investors as a result.

This piece also forgets to mention that Cheney has to work the system over there because the system right here at home REFUSES to do anything to help us actually AFFORD to drive our cars and trucks, run our trains, fly our planes, or heat our homes. ANWR is not our energy savior, but it sure could help ease the pain a little.

Forget all ABOUT increasing refinery capacity. Don't fret over those worrisome nuclear power plants. Our political heroes, on BOTH sides of the aisle, are here for us...taking care and making sure that they do as little as possible about being energy independent. They don't seem capable of drawing any connecting lines between the dots of our looming recession, collapsing financial markets, bankrupt lenders, out-of-work builders, or we poor folk becoming increasingly unable to afford to do anything but BREATHE...and, given enough time, they'll find a way to create an air crisis that they'll promise to mismanage for us.

Nope-the Dems will make this Cheney trip all about Bush's war having been about stealing Iraqi oil all along. Wait for Reid and Pelosi and the kids to start railing from the rooftops about it.

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