War for global oil market control promises ecological chaos

If it is all about oil, as you say, why aren't we going after Canada and Mexico?

You've omitted Venezuela. This indicates that you know bloody well it's all about oil. Why is the CIA meddling in Venezuela's and Colombia's interior politics?

Who put the Taliban in place? Who put Saddam in place? etc etc... Create Boogieman, defeat Boogieman, rule.

Imagine we saw on another planet what we see here: icecaps melting at tremendous speed. When New York will flood under the excess of seawater from polar icecaps meltdown, where will you stand with your stinking bloody oil?

Short sightedness and unwordly behavior will do you in. There are natural laws that supercede us, and our wars are only the illustration of our own hubris towards them. We'll pay the price, that's a certainty. Global warming can not be stopped if the US does not contribute to its solution. A planet warming a few degrees is a nightmare for agriculture. Just wait and see.

Or act against it.

I didn't mention Venezuela because they are doing quite nicely on their own botching things up, they need no assistance from us.

But of course, you already KNEW that, didn't you?

Agreed re global warming, wolf. But there may be reasons, albeit small ones, to be cheerful. The Senate voted against drilling in the Alaskan Reserve earlier this week.

But I definitely think this should be a bigger issue in the upcoming campaign, Wolf -- linking the oil to carnage, invasion, aggression, imperialism (take your pick!!) as well as to all-important environmental damage. But we environmentalists, by the end of this invasion, will have videos to bolster our case, the kinds of videos which will move even those who disdain us and call us "tree-huggers!!