THE DISSENT

[DownWithPumpers]

Yes, that's true. But that support was gained from Highly "suspect" information and pumped like a bad penny stock. There's no denying that Big Oil and Haliburton have made out like bandits. Charts don't lie. The Enery Crisis of the 1970's was later proven to be a Huge Scam. This is taking on the same flavor imo. But That's a dicussion for another time.

Maybe so. But it's not like Bush provided all the world's information. All these political officials who voted for the war had plenty of ways of searching for answers -- if they had wanted to. But again, talking about the post is easy and fun, precisely because it doesn't involve solving any of the hard problems. Deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars, kids dying, no purpose or plan for the war -- and we talk about wiretapping.

We have a government that's unwilling to make hard choices and solve hard problems. They spend a hundred million dollars on their campaign. Then when they're in office the best they can do is be against wiretapping, and high gas prices. I'm underwhelmed.

It was more than just oil we were supposedly running out of. The crackpots said we were running out of virtually everything from: space to live, to gold, to oil:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_Growth