[srm913]

Some people are just born to kick against the pricks. Since we apparently invaded Iraq just for her oil fields, why haven't we sent the Marines to Venezuela? Also, I highly doubt the eight million Iraqis who risked their lives in a courageous display of democracy would agree that the whole endeavor was a "charade." What a weaselette.

[.cnI redruM]

You didn't know about Halliburton's secret pipeline? I guess you haven't subscribed to "Whack-Job Quarterly; The Magazine of Irrational Conspiracy Theories."

Buy your subscription today, so that you can figure out what weenises like Michael Moore are talking about.

[Darkwolf377]

What a nasty, angry, America-hating widdle nothing of a person.

[SandRat]

Admit it! Come on Admit it! LINDA MCQUAIG you really work fro the Red Star the party organ of the Canadian Communists not the Toronto Star. You must work for the RED STAR to believe and put out the absolute drivel that you did.

[Trippin]

She's like a little child throwing a hissy fit. What a retard.

[InvisibleChurch]

it would be nice to cut oil production for liberals

[xcamel]

And Canada is just about snow. (seems like a whole bunch of it went up this guy's nose)

[digger48]

And the ink the Iraqis dipped their fingers in, really contains mind-controlling microscopic robots built and controlled by Halliburton.

All their oil are belong to us.

[Dashing Dasher]

Tell these people we did it for the oil!

[Hunble]

[Shermy]

No matter how inspired the rhetoric, the U.S. project in Iraq has never been about democracy. It's been about getting control of Iraq's vast, virtually untouched oil reserves , and extending Washington's military reach over the region out of the hands of Chretien family and other Canadian-French interests

To be more accurate...

[Focault's Pendulum]

It's been about getting control of Iraq's vast, virtually untouched oil reserves, and extending Washington's military reach over the region. "Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve underneath; you can't ask for better than that,"

...and the problem is.......???

[TWohlford]

from http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385660103

As you can see, she's been making a living selling this carp to Canadians for years. In 20 years she's held jobs with the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Macleans, and CBC radio. She's always seeing the world as a conspiracy by the "rich and powerful" (code for "Americans" I guess) to oppress humanity.

I saw a poll today from Canoe.ca that showed 2/3 of the respondants (mostly Canadian I assume) favored the death penalty for the LA Train guy. I suspect that there is a Canadian conservative movement just waiting to spring free from its lousy leadership.

Geek.

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Michael Moore rakes America’s corporate villains over the coals. Noam Chomsky flays the United States for the hypocrisy of its global adventurism. Now comes Linda McQuaig, whose incendiary new book tells us how the world’s most powerful industry and history’s most lethal army are having their way with the planet.

McQuaig’s scathing and razor-sharp assaults on fiscal policy (Shooting the Hippo), Free Trade (The Quick and the Dead), and the Canadian tax system (Behind Closed Doors), have won her a legion of dedicated readers. In It’s the Crude, Dude she turns her attention to a truly planetary issue: the cataclysmic effects our addiction to oil is having on our environment and our ability to co-exist in the world.

Nothing could be more urgently relevant.

Since its emergence as the first truly global industry in the early twentieth century, Big Oil has wielded more power than most governments over world politics and the global economy. And now, more than ever, it has a champion in U.S. President George W. Bush, whose Republican party received millions of dollars in donations from the oil industry and whose administration is stacked with former oil executives, including its all-powerful vice-president.

And yet the idea that the U.S. invaded Iraq to secure this strategically important and highly valuable resource is strangely taboo in the mainstream media. It is practically shouted down whenever mentioned. Instead, we are asked to believe that the U.S. invaded Iraq for a variety of reasons, none of which has anything whatsoever to do with a desire to gain control over the most lucrative untapped oilfield on earth — even as dwindling worldwide reserves threaten to turn competition for crude into the major international battle of the future.

In the end, that conflict may be dwarfed by another even more momentous disaster-in-waiting. Over the past two decades, it has become clear that the planet is getting warmer, and that emissions from fossil fuels are largely to blame. The scientific consensus on this — developed in the most comprehensive international peer-review process ever undertaken — is overwhelming. As surely as smoking causes cancer, gas-guzzling SUVs are hurrying us towards global climate change. In the face of this potentially devastating threat, the world has moved with unprecedented speed to try to head off disaster. Only a small group is resisting. But in its ranks are the most powerful corporations on earth, well connected to the most powerful government on earth. The outcome of this titanic struggle — the world versus the oil lobby — will likely determine nothing less than the future viability of the planet.

McQuaig’s research, analysis, and eye for detail combine to produce a riveting tale about the battle over oil that shapes our times and will determine our future. Readers of all political stripes will find this book provocative and impossible to put down.

REVIEW QUOTES

"With a keen eye and grim wit, McQuaiq's perceptive inquiry into the world's energy system strips away layer after layer of deceit, cynicism, racism, sordid manipulation, violence and aggression, in the dedicated effort to extract every possible ounce of profit and power in a race to the edge of disaster, perhaps beyond. It is an urgent wake-up call that should — that must — be read and acted upon, without delay."
—Noam Chomsky

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Journalist and bestselling author Linda McQuaig has developed a reputation for challenging the establishment. Winner of a National Newspaper Award for uncovering the Patti Starr affair in 1989, she has written for The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Maclean’s magazine, and the National Post. She now writes a weekly political column on the op-ed page of the Toronto Star.

[bert]

Bad case of Penis envy.

[JarheadFromFlorida]

Well, Fox News is finally being broadcast in Socialist Canada, so people will start to figure out soon enough how they have been fed nothing but a steady diet of left wing propaganda for many years. Radical anti-American leftists that are masquerading as journalists are rapidly being exposed for the frauds that they are.

[TWohlford]

Send the Marines to Venezuela?

Why not Western Canada? Surely it would be much cheaper to invade the oil fields of the Canadian west! After all, there are already tons of direct flights from places like Houston that currently transport Halliburton employees to Calgary. When the Americans finish with their secret master plan to dominate the Iraqi oil supply (most assuredly a bargain at $US250 Billion which doesn't prevent the price of gas goes to $2 a gallon) the oil fields of Canada will surely be next.

Yes, it's all a grand conspiracy, and those who are wise enough to see it will most surely be able to sell lots of books to the bohemians of Toronto, and be featured in the wee hours of CBC television broadcasts.

[popdonnelly]

This woman doesn't know what she's talking about. Ergo, she must be a leftist. She certainly sings the leftist line. What crap. These people have nothing to tell any of us.

[TheDon]

No votes for oil!!! < /sarcasm > LOL!

[goldstategop]

One can say the Left is nothing if not consistent in its hatred of President Bush and its disdain for freedom. The greatest opposition to holding free elections in Iraq was expressed, in of all places, not in Iraq itself but in such advanced democratic countries such as Spain and the U.K! How come no one asks if democracy is a charade in parts of the West? The difference is we take freedom for granted; the Iraqi people with their recent experience under a totalitarian dictatorship, didn't. No, its not about oil and Haliburton and for once we could stand to learn from Iraqis about what its like to have your vote finally matter.

Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."

[stinkerpot65]

Linda McQuaig

Anyone this butt-ugly should be full of hate.

Arf!

[hermgem]

Good Linda forgot to tell us that Hussein's Iraq was for oil, but it was to be French, Russian, German, Chinese oil interests.
This protection racket controlled the U.N. voting machine.
All those participated had contracts for oil exploration, huge credits, and gained contractual exploration ownerships of Iraqi territories.
French leadership brought about Hussein's tolerance and continuation of slaughters and massacres of Iraqi people.
Aren't Canadians close cousins of these French exploiters?
Linda kept on crying into darkness and now discovers light and hope shining bright into Iraqi's future.
Just wait and see how these UN weasels show up to present claims signed by Hussein.