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- mejusthavin, on 06/26/2008, -24/+271American Hero
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -15/+224Here's the problem. Back right after 9/11, Bush and Co. did a great job of putting everyone into idiot mode, where questioning anything the president or his administration did was "unpatriotic," and so, I suppose somehow meetings between former energy mogul Dick Cheney, and oil companies somehow must have fallen under the all encompassing umbrella of "national security." So they were secret, and they can easily try to say that they have no documentation from such meetings, and so its possible they may never be forced to divulge what was discussed in these meetings, although everyone already knows.
Sadly, the media has brainwashed people into believing that impeachment hearings now would serve no purpose, and we should let Bush ride his term out to the end. ***** THAT! If I broke the law, if I were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and profitted from it, if I conspired to destroy the American economy while putting myself and my friends at an advantage, I would belong in jail. Bush and Cheney belong in jail, and I hope they get assraped on a daily basis. - Carl306, on 06/27/2008, -11/+178Kucinich is looking better and better in my book day after day...
- zephyear, on 06/27/2008, -11/+148"Fascism should more accurately be described as corporatism, because it is the merger of the CORPORATE power and the state"
- ChristPissed, on 06/26/2008, -21/+156When enough people hear the truth, the oil companies will get what they deserve... a bill for blood and treasury and speculation.
- mlrigsby, on 06/27/2008, -12/+104It's amazing that this view is seen as a "radical" left wing notion.
Facts:
Bush & Cheney have ties to the oil industry
Bush & Cheney entered the White House in 2000.
US invades and occupies an oil producing country in 2003.
Oil prices reach record highs, Bush & Cheney's friends make money hand over fist.
For some reason though most people can't or won't put all the pieces together. - tatis44, on 06/27/2008, -12/+75Is too bad people not that many people suport kucinich... from all the dem candidates he was the best.
www.dailyradical.org - inactive, on 06/27/2008, -12/+70that is who obama should have as his veep
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -9/+66Resist the NWO/globalists who trade our blood for oil!
- MadKennyP, on 06/27/2008, -8/+56But, if this were true, oil companies would have somehow profited.
"Exxon Mobil's staggering $40.6 billion earnings for 2007 drive the truth home: There's no business on the planet that gushes forth more profit than selling oil—nothing even close."
"Exxon beat its own one-year-old record for the biggest corporate profits ever by 3 percent. Put together with the announcement by Chevron of an $18.7 billion year plus the earlier results of Shell and ConocoPhillips, and that's more than $100 billion in profits from four companies. It's all thanks to the historic 35 percent climb in worldwide crude oil prices in the second half of 2007, ending the first week of this year when oil briefly touched $100 per barrel."
http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/economy/20 ...
OK then. - Bushlied, on 06/27/2008, -14/+58Its time that these elitist ***** pay with their own blood.
- Nicksname1, on 06/27/2008, -8/+43"Today the price of oil is $135.59 per barrel, the US Army is occupying Iraq and the first Iraq oil contracts will go, without competitive bidding to, surprise, (among a very few others) Exxon, Shell and BP."
They Price gouge us and as a reward the government gives them contracts.
"In March 2001, two years before Iraq was invaded, Cheney met with top executives from Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell Oil Co., BP America Inc. and others on his infamous secret Energy Task Force."
Good work energy task force you were able to rape Americans at the pump and now here's first crack at more oil for cheap because you are so good at price gouging. - crxvfr, on 06/27/2008, -10/+45I made this comment when there were no comments. I was upset that there were no comments. That being said, I admire this guy. He would my second choice to Ron Paul.
- beesaretasty, on 06/27/2008, -3/+33No they won't.
- johlorax, on 06/27/2008, -13/+43Kucinich has been right all along.
- u8myfoood, on 06/27/2008, -8/+37I say charge oil companies with high crimes and release all patents held by them, they are bound to have held some technology from the public that would hurt their revenue stream. Maybe on the lines of new fuel cell technologies and such!
Then again, maybe after watching a conspiracy movie my ideas may have been swayed. - SpudgeBoy, on 06/27/2008, -1/+25Actually, the secret energy meeting Cheney held were before 9/11. Just as the USA PATRIOT ACT was written before 9/11.
- l815, on 06/27/2008, -10/+34Hm. the puzzle fits... 9/11 occured, which 'supposedly' triggered the hostility towards terrorism, which then lead us to war with these 'terrorists' up to this date, of which nothing has come out of it.
Why are we still fighting these terrorists? I haven't heard or seen any attacks from them the last time I can remember. The US economy is *****, and Bush is getting away with it all.
In the end, it seems that 9/11 really is the cause of Bush and his secret powers to trigger a stupid war over oil which would only benefit the ***** wealthy oil companies who are greedy enough as it is!
Man... someday I'll just have to move out of here.. - geneticlone, on 06/27/2008, -2/+24During the democratic debate I though he was on of the best, he didn't get a lot of questions but the ones he did get he answered incredibly well. Sadly, everyone was focused on Clinton and Obama at that time. Anyway, I hope he runs again, he is a very intelligent person.
- robbiemuffin, on 06/27/2008, -1/+21why? When everyone heard the truth about fruit companies in central america in the 60s, nothing happened. When everyone heard the truth about energy policy and global warming in the 70s, nothing happened. When everyone heard the truth about arms trafficing in the Reagan adminstration, nothing happened. When everyone heard the truth about Monica Lewinski, well ok yeah that actually did play itself out for all it was worth.... but that didn't have any money behind it. If Monica was a starlet from a billionaire porn company you'd have to dig through a mile of paperwork to find out it ever happened.
- Elranzer, on 06/27/2008, -0/+19...wearing a flag and bearing a cross.
- monkeyrun, on 06/27/2008, -16/+35Go Kucinich!
Change we can believe in! - StacyZep, on 06/27/2008, -27/+45Kucinich (and gravel) were the only true candidates who wanted a real change in this country. Americans are just too stupid and ignorant to see it and are easily fooled by slick corporatist ***** like obama.
- swrostmore, on 06/27/2008, -6/+24Yeah, oil companies sure were drastically injured over the past 5 years, I hear they are on the verge of bankruptcy because of all the oil we are not drilling.
- MadKennyP, on 06/27/2008, -6/+24Oil companies have record low profits??
Now that is simply the polar opposite of the truth. - Unreal595, on 06/27/2008, -12/+29He's on a roll
- krnldmp, on 06/27/2008, -5/+22We went to war for oil industry profit, not for you, oil, or anything else.
- steelclash84, on 06/27/2008, -2/+18Always did. I plan to write him in come Nov.
- SpudgeBoy, on 06/27/2008, -1/+15A UFO is not paranormal. It means he saw and unidentified flying object as have millions of people. UFO does not mean aliens. It means something in the air that is flying that you can't identify.
Just like the millions of people that saw giant black triangles flying around.
Ever see the Stealth fighter and stealth bomber? They are big black triangles. The project was started back in the '50s and the official acknowledgment that they exsisted didn't happen until Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
So, from the '50s until the early '90s, people like you called people crazy and insane for seeing a real UFO.
But, still nothing paranormal about it. That has to do with ghost and stuff like that. - SpudgeBoy, on 06/27/2008, -0/+14Replies the complicit tool.
- sealhands, on 06/27/2008, -9/+23dennis for VP
- pintomp3, on 06/27/2008, -1/+14it's a quote from benito mussolini
- Elranzer, on 06/27/2008, -2/+15They own the patents for all viable non-oil energy methods, just so they could sit on them.
- yournamehere, on 06/27/2008, -0/+13but we're in Iraq and the 'terrorists' are in Afghanistan. Why are we in Iraq? There's only one thing there and I think we all know what that is.
- laserdog, on 06/27/2008, -1/+14That'd be true if there was *also* a Democratic commander in Chief who had been pushing for war these past 7 years.
Since there is just, you know, the *one* demanding, that the blame get spread around seems a bit silly.
But sure, I'm willing to admit the democrats haven't been saints on this matter.
But I think being craven cowards who are willing to sit back and let the GOP dig themselves a grave, while reprehensible, is also completely in character for a self-serving politician, it's at least understandable incompetence.
This administration breaks the mold, in that they seem to have sold the entire country down the river for a couple quarters of profits for certain industries, with seeming no regard for the future of the nation.
I think this new scale of stupendous greed and short-sightedness from our politicians are what has people angry.
So yes, Democrats are bad, but it just isn't on the same scale as what this administration has perpetrated. - pintomp3, on 06/27/2008, -3/+16lying stupid *****:
Exxon Mobil posts $40.6 billion annual profit
Oil giant breaks record for largest annual profit by a U.S. company
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22949325/ - cwright213, on 06/27/2008, -2/+14I just reported this post for being offensively STUPID.
- JoeVet, on 06/27/2008, -3/+15What does 9/11 have to do with Iraq?
- Bahada, on 06/27/2008, -3/+15"oil companies have record low profits due to the cost of oil"
Um, care to share where you got this information? - nblsavage, on 06/27/2008, -3/+15so because an issue is uncomfortable or difficult it should be ignored? How pathetic we've become.
- robbiemuffin, on 06/27/2008, -1/+13ending your sentence in a proposition (its ok but still, in a grammar nazi comment? You should know better), not spelling out "third", and a complete lack of clausal punctuation adds a bit of irony to an already inane comment.
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -1/+12The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061692666/T ... - inactive, on 06/27/2008, -0/+11@dshpls, they both favor a sane foreign policy. At this time there are many factors threatening America, but we have to start with a sane foreign policy that is non-interventionist and decouples our military from the Likud party in Israel.
That is what Paul and Kucinich have in common. I imagine that you know that. - Brain1, on 06/27/2008, -0/+11Dennis Kucinich is an American Hero.He should be President.
To bad the powers that be have a stranglehold on our election process. - sealhands, on 06/27/2008, -1/+12he has always been top notch
- ryan00davis, on 06/27/2008, -0/+11im beginning to like him (Dennis Kucinich) more and more these days. now if only the rest of the country would take him seriously we might make some progress.
- rz8472, on 06/27/2008, -0/+11Its a bit more complicated than that; the cronyism reaches other sectors as well, including Bechtel and Blackwater. It's no surprise that even though Great Britain decided to stick their necks out and decided to support this misguided war, NONE of their corporations got any major contracts, and no local Iraqi companies got any major contracts either.
All the money went to "cost-plus" contracts with corporations that had extensive ties to the GOP and the Bush Administration. The oil companies were only one element of this.
The result - a total lack of accountability, shoddy workmanship, 80% Iraqi unemployment, and an essential funneling of money from the taxpayers to these profoundly evil organizations. - Origin415, on 06/27/2008, -0/+10and the casualties from the "war on terror" outnumbers those sustained on 9/11.
- DrummerAndrew, on 06/27/2008, -0/+10Just because he's a little funny looking, people wrote him off. Let me tell you, if you don't think McCain is funny looking you deserve to be written off. Kucinich has balls of steel and he is working hard to do right by the American people.
- V1ncent, on 06/27/2008, -12/+21Big Oil is the same as Big Tobacco; they're friends will always be in power and it's business as usual. Forever.
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