“Haven’t you seen Fahrenheit 9/11? You’re so naïve man, everyone knows the Iraq War was for oil. Bush is more oil crazed than a eight-seater, gas guzzlin’ SUV.” This is one conspiracy theory I could do without.
I thought it had gone. I was convinced it was banished forever now the ‘tyrannical’ reign of George Bush had come to an end. Alas not. It’s back. People are apparently more convinced than ever that the Bush/Blair axis of evil masterminded a war from Neo-Con HQ in conjunction with Shell, ExxonMobil, Halliburton and numerous other baby-eating multi-national corporations. To believe that any other motivation for the war existed would reflect a viewpoint which isn’t ‘sticking it to the man’. Well forgive me if I’m not convinced by a couple of opinion pieces in the Independent and a moronic fat man’s latest pile of shit documentary.
“You need to open your eyes man, confront the truth, it’s all about oil” Well, no actually. And the thing which angers me most about this debate is that it deflects attention from what is the more pressing issue. The shambolic post-war planning is what has made the Iraq war the issue it is today. It is this lack of preparation which has caused untold suffering to millions of innocent Iraqi people, and it is the lack of planning which has indelibly damaged the credibility of the concept of humanitarian intervention. That’s the issue. “God man, you’re so missing the point, Blair’s a megalomaniacal oil drinking American poodle.” I rest my case.
