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Dia feliz da dependência de óleo
Quinta-feira, julho 3o, 2008
Por Robert Scheer | Como nós dirigimos no Fourth do fim de semana de julho de patriotic bluster e cerveja que swilling? mas antes que nós besotted demasiado com nos? pudemos nós também para uma vez considerar nossas imperfeições? Por que não faça exame de um momento para heed os cuidados de nosso pai fundando, George Washington, cujo o legacy verdadeiro mais provável ser ignorado durante o fim de semana bandeira-acenar? Washington? s? Endereço Farewell? à nação nova era um aviso sobre a ameaça de ambições imperiais americanas e uma declaração de suas expectativas elevadas para uma república de homens livres: ? Em oferecer a você, a meus compatriotas, a estes conselhos de um amigo velho e affectionate, eu ouso não a esperança que farão a impressão forte e durável eu poderia desejar; que controlarão a corrente usual das paixões, ou impeça que nossa nação funcione o curso que tem marcado hitherto o destiny das nações. Mas, se eu puder mesmo se lisonjear myself, isso podem ser produtivos de algum benefício parcial, algum bom ocasional; que eles pode agora e então retornar para moderar o fury do espírito do partido, para advertir de encontro aos mischiefs do intrigue extrangeiro, para guardar de encontro aos impostures do patriotism fingido. ?? Nós estamos afogando-nos no? impostures do patriotism fingido? usou-se cobrir as mentiras que nos começaram em Iraq, na defesa da tortura e na violação de nossas liberdades básicas. No nome do patriotism, nós presumimos uma direita americana Deus-dada requisitar novamente o mundo a nosso gostar, mascarando o vice de greed unfettered como uma obrigação da segurança nacional. Todas as dúvidas a respeito deste impulso governando mais atrasado de nossas ambições imperiais foram quebradas com a notícia recente que ESTADOS UNIDOS. os conselheiros a nosso governo do fantoche na zona verde de Iraq ocupado trabalharam para fora acordos para que as companhias de óleo americanas ganhem o controle de campos de óleo Iraqi. Mas, então outra vez, que nós esperamos quando nós elegemos um hustler do óleo de Texas, e falhado naquele, para ser nosso presidente? Only in an America dumbed down by constant propaganda about our innate moral superiority will anyone any longer believe that we didn?t invade Iraq for the oil, even though Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came to the Bush administration from the board of directors at Chevron, where they named an oil tanker after her. Like Vice President Dick Cheney with those Halliburton contracts, Rice has stayed true to her corporate sponsors. That?s what the U.S. invasion of Iraq accomplished; for the first time in more than three decades after Iraq joined a worldwide trend of formerly colonized nations gaining control of their own resources, Big Oil is getting its black gold back. It was always about the oil ? that?s why ?we? invaded Iraq ? only ?we? aren?t getting any, at least not at a reasonable price. The oil companies are. I know it?s difficult for the corporate media and politicians, both fueled generously by energy money, to grasp the distinction, but we the people and they the oil companies are not one and the same. While we suffer at the pump, they make record profits, which is the way they like it. Don?t think for a second that U.S. oil companies are rushing into Iraq to expand production to help lower world oil prices, thus making their investments less profitable. They just want to be on the winning side, which is why the CEO of Halliburton relocated his office from Texas to the United Arab Emirates, where I am certain he and his fellow corporate expatriates are able to happily celebrate the Fourth of July. So, take that American flag off your lapel and replace it with a button bearing the Exxon or Chevron logo. C?mon, Dick Cheney and Condi Rice, be straight about what it is you are really pushing here. ?Fess up ? it?s not the good old USA as represented by the sucker taxpayers conned by your patriotic blather. No sirree, what you would have Americans paying homage to is the majesty of the big multinational corporations that exploit American military power to rule the world. But recognize that you have shamed the legacy of our first president. George Washington, who distinguished the promise of the new world from the corruptions of the old by shunning imperial conquest, said: ?Our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing.? If Barack Obama or John McCain was to offer such words of wisdom this Fourth of July, he would be vilified as ?weak,? and that is a fit measure of just how far we have descended from the high hopes of our first president. Robert Scheer is the author, most recently, of ?The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America,? published by Twelve Books. Copyright ? 2008 Truthdig, L.L.C. Have Your Say: Happy Oil Dependence Day Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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