I Did Not Have Conversation With That Man

Porter ties U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gasoline.

WASHINGTON -- Gasoline prices could rise to about $9 per gallon if the United States withdraws troops from Iraq prematurely, Rep. Jon Porter said he was told on a trip to Iraq that ended this week.

The Nevada Republican, who returned Tuesday from his fourth trip to Iraq, met with U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Iraqi Deputy President Tariq al-Hashimi and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh.

"To a person, they said there would be genocide, gas prices in the U.S. would rise to eight or nine dollars a gallon, al-Qaida would continue its expansion, and Iran would take over that portion of the world if we leave," Porter said Wednesday in a phone interview from Las Vegas.

-------A week ago I commented (see below - But Wait Checkermates) on gas hitting $9 per gallon.

The "left" jumped Porter's comments with the standard sarcasm i.e. the US is already committing genocide killing 1,000,000 Iraqi, the Democrats are not doing enough, Porter is fearmongering, kill more Iraqi to keep gas cheap, etc., you know the drill, or perhaps, as it all reads the same, you know the wordprocessing macro the "left" pulls up for its usual rebuttal.

Can I heave a big disgusted sigh ? ... today's "left" uses the tactical playbook from the '60s - minus the boycotts, riots, fires, beatings, death, sacrifice - as if a tepid imitation of flower power rhetoric will end man's inhumanity to man. Today's "left" compare themselves to Rosa Parks and/or googles quotes from MLK. It's enough to piss off a real progressive person.

Also this week, the French oil company Total …. "announced that it has received approval from the Vietnamese government to acquire a 35% interest in the production sharing contract for offshore exploration Block 15-1/05, alongside PetroVietnam Exploration and Production (PVEP – operator, 40%) and SK Corporation of South Korea (25%)."

You do know Vietnam was about geo-oilitics too? Right? (As was WWI, II, Korea, Bosnia, etal.) Total has also "signed a contract with China National Petroleum Corporation to appraise, develop and produce natural gas resources in the South Sulige block in China."

Imagine that, took the French 50 years to get their Vietnamese oil. In 2000 the French oil company Elf Aquitaine merged with Total Fina to form TotalFinaElf, which changed its name to Total in 2003. (Elf scandal, BNP Paribas, 1990s Oil-For-Food, and - my personal favorite threat to sue me - Nadhmi Auchi.)

When the US "ends" its war on Iraq, and the Anglos divide and sign deals for the oil plunder – not many of those contracts will benefit Joe Merican, and why should they boys and girls – it was your idea to go for the Afghani throat after 9/11, and then SH, and then withdraw from Iraq, bring the troops home, end the war. Bad dog. Bad, bad dog. You will pay for that mistake, yessirree you will. Next time, keep your government on a shorter leash.

When the US leaves Iraq, declaring the war a lost cause – the sweetest deals will go to globoanglo corporations, and a few brown folks who have sucked up real hard to the white folks running the plantation (or have video evidence). And in case it's went unnoticed, those globoanglo corporations have found greener pastures than USA.

Honestly though, it's not your fault the US will lose Iraq - 99 percent chance it was planned that way, just as Vietnam went the way the ruling class dictated.

But don't say you were tricked or lied to - most of you knew in your gut Bush the Boy was full of shit the first time you watched the twitching, blinking lying twerp in the 2000 debates. And the rest of you weren't interested - but you soon will be when it finally comes home to roost.

Of course Rep. Porter is the standard lying pol, that's the only type the ruling class issues you boneheads, but in this particular instance, Porter's been sent to let ya know what's on the horizon - so when it hits - you can't say you weren't warned. Batten down the hatches – the wind blows a storm this way.