The Progressive Daily Beacon: "Dying for Big Oil"

They can be brought down too.

The Progressive Daily Beacon: "Dying for Big Oil":

Collectively big oil has posted a second-quarter profit of $30 billion. Most people think the reason for big oil's grotesque profit surge is that they are bending the American consumer over at the pump, and not even bothering to give the people a smooch when they're done. Greed is greed, but there is more to the profit story than most Americans care to realize.

The biggest reason for big oil's obscene profit surge is war. While Bush and Republicans steal freedoms from the American people, if any American parent continues to believe their son or daughter is dying in Iraq because of some absurd notion of 'spreading freedom' in the Middle East, that parent or parents are sadly mistaken! Their son or daughter is dying in Iraq for oil profits.

'Liberal whack-job', you say, 'Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and the Democratic Leadership Council warned me about people like you.'

Fair enough. Everyone is entitled to their opinion; however, neither propaganda nor absurd nationalistic delusions will change this reality: The war in Iraq and now, too, the instability created by Israel's fight with Hezbollah threatens to, thanks to Bush's refusal to seek a ceasefire, completely destabilize the entire Middle East and are the engines driving oil over $70 a barrel. And it is the uncertainty created by war(s) more than anything that has been generating big oil's absurd profits.