"There are a lot of people who are kinda sorta ok with the war in Iraq figuring at least we got the oil.  We didn't get shit but some dead sons and daughter and a giant credit card bill."

This had not occurred to me.  This is a stunning thing to contemplate.  Iraqi oil goes into the world market to the highest bidder, Exxon/Mobil profits, the US taxpayers pick up the tab, in the process being reamed and overcharged by Halliburton and Blackwater and the other contracting firms.  In the case of Halliburton, they move their corporate headquarters to Dubai to avoid paying anything back to the US taxpayer.  The whole thing is kept afloat by stop-lossing our volunteer army and forcing them to serve three and four hitches.  They play, we pay.  The public always gets the shitty end of the stick.  Every goddamned time.

Fuck!