April 24, 2003
Here and There, Apr. 24

I have "never seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one" either. But I do own shares in Exxon-Mobil, more shares than anybody who's reading this can possibly imagine. And I want my oil profits NOW! If Bush's CIA isn't going to cut the tongues out of the heads of all of those Hollywood busybodies who are getting in between me and my oil, then I don't know what I'm going to do.

Busted: Tariq Aziz has been taken into custody by US forces. This one's for you, Aunt Selma.

Scheer fabrication
Jan 7, 2003

However, the viewing public doesn't seem to understand that what is being planned by our president is not Gulf War II -- a swift punch in the mouth to our old ally Hussein -- but rather a multiyear occupation by the U.S. of an independent, powerful and modern Muslim nation rife with ethnic tension.
April 22, 2003
Of course, our vaunted intelligence forces knew well ... that Iraq had been reduced by two decades of wars, sanctions and arms inspections to a paper tiger
Go get 'em, Bob. Coming soon: the Robert Scheer Canard-o-matic

John Pilger will henceforth be known as "St. John the Ba'athist"

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 24, 2003 04:34 PM
Comments

"I have never seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one"

I have, being an independant oil producer in Texas. The increased flow of oil from Iraq will, due to the basic laws of supply and demand, lower the price. Not good for those of us smaller fish in the oil barrel.

Posted by: Wallace on April 25, 2003 09:47 PM
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