Democracy is Dead

The year that most of this year’s high school graduates were born, dictator Saddam Hussein accused Emir Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah the third of stealing Iraq’s oil by drilling sideways. So he invaded Kuwait, which was the fourth richest country in the world per capita.

The U.S. President, a man named George Bush thought we should go to war to get Iraq out of Kuwait.

Bush had become an oil millionaire through the Zapata and Dresser Corporations in Texas in the 1950’s and 60’s. By the time you were three or four years old, the Dresser Corporation was the third largest oil-services company in the world.

When the class of 2008 were in second grade, a man named Dick Cheney negotiated a $7 billion merger between Dresser and a company called Halliburton. When George Bush went to war against Saddam Hussein in 1991, he was our Secretary of Defense.

When this year’s Seniors were in seventh grade, George Bush’s son, decided that he wanted to go to war against Iraq too. We weren’t sure why because we were already in a war in Afghanistan, trying to catch the man who planned the attack on the World Trade Center, back when they were in fifth grade.

Halliburton and its subsidiaries, including KBR and Blackwater received billions of dollars in no-bid government contracts to help build military bases in Iraq this time around. Coincidently, Dick Cheney was the second President Bush’s Vice President. Weird huh?

Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Neo-Conservative, Progressive, Moderate, Liberal, Independent- I don’t care who you are. It has to bother you that gas was only $1.46/gal in 2000 and it’s $3.59/gal. Especially when this past quarter, Exxon-Mobile reported the highest profits ever recorded by any company in the history of the world.

It takes only seconds for the numbers to fly by as you’re filling your gas tank. Just think, Exxon made $1,287 of profit per second in 2007. How long does it take you to make that kind of money? A week? Good for you, a couple of weeks? A month?

Meanwhile Chevron and Shell made their all time highest profits too.

Doesn’t this all seem at least a tiny little, teensy weensie bit wrong to you?
I think it’s obscene, but what do I know, I’m just one of those slimy, traitorous, bleeding heart, “American-hating” liberals.