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“Blood and Oil” is a very, very well made film that will show you something new even if you already know that - as Dubya admits - the United States is addicted to oil, even if you know the deal that FDR cut with the king of Saudi Arabia on February 14, 1945 (and have already seen the film footage of them meeting on a US ship accompanied by the king’s slaves and astrologers), even if you know the openly oily basis of the Truman Doctrine, the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Nixon Doctrine, the Carter Doctrine, and Reagan’s Persian Gulf policies, the origins of Centcom, and the oily panic of Bush I (who finally established that the policy of blood for oil would be hushed up and disguised by phony war justifications), even if you know that Bush I’s reneging on his promise to leave Saudi Arabia after driving the Iraqis out of Kuwait turned Osama bin Laden into an enemy of the United States, even if you’ve followed the crimes of Cheney-Bush and the establishment of Africom, even if you have been screaming against war for oil since before Shock and Awe.

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The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East has long been dismissed as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years – rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.

POWER all oils ....ops boils down to the same thing....POWER CONTROL??
Why one needs total control beats me?

Guess the pressure is now on........

I'll rent it this weekend!

Plenty of oil, just easier and cheaper to kill people for it than go after the "more difficult" oil, and the "right" people profit from the war and the oil as well.


Sad fact is that human life isn't worth squat if you have something someone else wants bad enough.

Pretty damn sad for the working beas?

JMO. I wouldn't have agreed five plus years ago but I definitely agree now. I'm checking the movie out,

I'd rather watch ROCKY BALBOA.

I will check it out. thanks

American environmentalist are so arrogant that they want the Saudis to wreck their beautiful landscape with oil wells, but dare not put an oil well 50 miles out off the coast of Florida or California.


JMO

Well surely would be an eyesore in the sand.........The beautyfull desert..Dust to dust....................pipe in the water...........money trying to reverse nature big time???does not work in my mind?? But yes money talks...........

Theres also lots of money to be made in times of war - wars make plenty of millionaires...........

That's how Roosevelt got us out of the Great Depression. Nothing else worked.

Selling the killing machines.............sad..

Yes and all money gold stashed in where????????Switzerland........how can one or was one allowed to do that?????

a quote from "War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier "
Smedley D. Butler

"War is a racket. It has always been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives..."

Well I dont have your intellect Trish but in laymans words see some really bad things coming for all?And the big boys have bolt holes to run for cover......Well prepared is my thinking?
That too is my reptilian reading on the matter.

Hey, dont put yourself down - I dont have the intellect either, my 'achievement' was a fluke and your 'reptillian' allusion was very amusing

Well girl watch em all bolt for cover when the S..T starts to fly.