Ismael Reed poem: "A Family Values Man"

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--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> A Leftover Lefty Sort Of Man
>[...] 

The war has nothing to do with oil, somebody said.
Nobody's making war for profits.  That's just old
hippie conspiracy thinking.

<http://cnnmoney.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&expire=&urlID=6217248&fb=Y&partnerID=2200>

  Halliburton job bigger than thought
Army says $7 B contract to repair Iraq's oil fields
includes operations and oil distribution.
May 7, 2003: 3:12 PM EDT 

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Halliburton Co.'s $7 billion
contract, awarded without competition, to make
emergency repairs to Iraq's oil infrastructure also
gives it the power to run all phases of Iraq's oil
industry, according to U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman,
D-Calif. [...] Halliburton said these duties are not
inconsistent with its previous statements that it was
hired to "provide services for the continuity of
operations of the Iraqi oil infrastructure." [...] A
Cheney spokeswoman denied the Vice President, who was
CEO of Halliburton from 1995-2000, had anything to do
with the contract. [...] 

...Yeah, and I have no political axe to grind.

"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying
and selling. The murdering and the violence are
self-policing, and can be entrusted to
non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is
useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as
diversion from the real movements of the War. It
provides raw material to be recorded into History, so
that children may be taught History as sequences of
violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared
for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a
stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to
try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still
here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of
markets." Gravity's Rainbow, p. 105



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