The Smoking Gun

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Can you remember how excited you were when you heard, through the media, that the Commerce Department had finally released documents relating to Cheney's Energy Task Force? Do you recall how angry you became when you saw right there, on internal Bush Abomination documents, dated in March of 2001, that part of their energy planning involved maps of Iraqi oil fields!!!!????

No? don't worry, neither do I. But before you run out and buy "The Memory Switch" or some other memory enhancement gizmo, allow me a moment to explain why your memory is so faulty. Well, you see, it isn't.

Here's a little experiment. Open a new window and bring up your Google Search engine. Got it? Good. Now type in this phrase: "Cheney Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi oil fields" Done? Excellent! Now have a look at the results. I stopped looking for any major media outlets after I went through ten pages of articles. On the tenth page, I did find a hit for The New Yorker. My cynical nature was reaffirmed when I opened the hyperlink and saw that the phrase was hopelessly buried in a long article, appropriately titled BENEATH THE SAND.

So why did the "Corporate" media think

that a story about a pre 9/11 task force,

headed by our nation's Vice President,

looking toward Iraqi oil fields as a part of

OUR future energy policy was not

newsworthy?

When on March 17, 2003 President Bush warned the Iraqi people "And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people" did it then become newsworthy?

Did it become newsworthy when we found no WMD's in Iraq?

When on September 18, 2003, the President had to admit that "we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th," did it then become newsworthy?

Is it newsworthy now that we know that Philip Carroll, former CEO of Shell Oil, and hand picked overseer or Iraqi oil production, had to prevent Paul Bremer from privatizing the Iraqi oil industry? According to Mr. Carroll , Paul Bremer adamently pressed him to set up the privatization plan but Carroll stated firmly that "There was to be no privatization of Iraqi oil resources or facilities while I was involved."

Let's tally the score, shall we.

The war was about Weapons of Mass Destruction; until it wasn't

The war was about 9/11; until it wasn't

The war was about Democratizing Iraq; until it wasn't.

The war was never about oil; until it was.

And what does it matter? You didn't need to know any of this anyway.

--Holy shittokki Batman--