- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Juan has touched the surface of this miasma...the Bush/Cheney hypocrisy of appeals to international law and order. What he doesn't delve into is the more cynical involvement of the US government on behalf of oil interests who pursued and financed a pipeline. 43's family buddy, C. Bowden Gray, was recently sent over as the Eurasian Oil Envoy (a recess appointment no less) to pursue such oil opportunities. Georgian "democracy" is a nice headline: read the fine print. If Putin and his oil lackeys financed a pipeline, say thru Mexico, to divert American oil to foreign ports William Randolph Hearst himself would rise from the dead and find another battleship to sink! Think about this. Oil interests are now hesitant to finance another regional pipeline: they say they have no "plan B". Really? If John McCain is elected, the oil interests will CONTINUE to dictate this madness...oil first, country second.
