Every political blogger in the USA has favorite topics.  But the Grandaddy of ‘em all - the Mother of all political beefs - is the Gulf Wars - Parts I and II.  Know why?  Life and death, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, Al Quaeda - at least that was what we were told.  Everything that gets people upset.

Uncle Arthur is as patriotic as most any American, but I am a little more like the patriot of “Fortunate Son,” that great Creedence Clearwater Revival song of the Viet Nam era.  And Uncle Arthur is here to tell you that there are some other possibly more important reasons for the Gulf Wars than just terrorism and WMD.

What in heaven’s name could those other reasons possibly be??????  I bet you can guess - all you wild-eyed Superbloggers.  Could it be the easiest way to get into a long drawn out, extremely expensive, policing action that has the perfect lose-lose scenario whereby the federal government can funnel billions of dollars into their defense contractors’ pockets.  George and George and Dick at the wheel, with Congressmen sucking their favorite military/industrial lobbyist and nobody the wiser. Tee Hee!

Why not waste the taxpayer’s money, right? We can just give it to every private corporation with a Defense contract in Iraq that’s paid to stimulate a “civil war” or a “jihadist” movement just bristling with militias that are armed with our weapons.  Then we tell the GIs to protect the Iraqis from themselves so we can get the oil with less problem.  Everybody loses except Halliburton and BIG OIL.   Oh! And if it gets close to a resolution or gets too violent then switch sides every year or two, just so the bullets keep whizzing.

Now before you start worrying about repaying our national debt because of the Gulf War, we must remember the other big reason we needed Gulf War I and II.  Yes - BIG OIL!!! Because we want to help BIG OIL refine everybody’s oil so they can profit from that dirty, fossil fuel. And then we can pay BIG MONEY to those warring jihadist totalitarian states for their oil, because we’re addicted to it, ’cause Washington says that’s okay for a few more decades.  So, we have to keep everything safe for getting the oil and shipping it out, using our soldiers lives to get the dirty job done.  Hearts and souls??

What about the environment????  Well, we’ve had solar, wind and other renewable and clean energies for many decades - but where’s the graft in that?  BIG OIL can’t make too much money  unless we’re addicted to oil with it’s skyrocketing prices, international wars, strategic risks and dead soldiers.  So Uncle Arthur says, QUIT FUNDING TERROR - get out of BIG OIL.

Over and Out,
Uncle Arthur “Black Jack”  Browning