Post-election post

Clever use of words, no?

The Reform Ohio Now! initiatives all failed. Yay. Corzine got elected governor of New Jersey, although one has to wonder how a man intelligent enough to run Goldman Sachs would want to run NJ... Also, Tim Kaine will be the new governor of Virginia.

But quite probably the best news of the day was that all eight of the Dover PA school board's pro-'Intelligent Design' members were defeated for re-election.

OK, I've got this problem...

I'm trying to not post a lot about politics in here these days, but something has been troubling me for the past couple of weeks, and I need to write about it. I'm sorry, but it's about Iraq.

Remember about three years ago, when the U.S.-led coalition was gearing up for the invasion, and many people on the left were crying "no blood for oil" and claiming that the only reason that the Bush administration wanted to invade was because it was trying to line the pockets of their wealthy friends in corporations like Halliburton? Also, remember the outcry in countries like France, Germany, and Russia?

See, here's the problem. There was, in Hussein-led Iraq, this thing called the Oil for Food Program. Many westerners, like Clinton crony Marc Rich, Russian parliamentarian Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and British MP George Galloway, profited from the Oil for Food Program. In other words, they had a financial incentive for the Hussein regime to remain in power. One might conclude that their opposition to the invasion should be seen as just as cynical and craven as Republicans' support for it.

Now, recently, evidence has shown that, in addition to the above-mentioned individuals, more than 2,000 western corporations have been linked to this corrupt Oil for Food Program, benefitting in excess of $2 billion. Corporations like DaimlerChrysler, Banque Nationale de Paris, and Saybolt. Ironically, corporations and politicians in countries opposed to removing Hussein from power.

So tell me, why is it that those who were in favor of the Iraq War did it because they were greedy, but those who opposed it were altruistic? Maybe it's a case of people seeing what they want to see.