[lbo-talk] RE: how's it feel?

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Wed Apr 16 15:04:41 PDT 2003


Clinton may mean "oil" in the narrowest sense but the demonstrators I was with meant oil and empire. In the Iraq situation I don't think they are inseparable. One can't sit atop the empire without controlling what runs the military -- oil -- right? Marta


>Well it would. That is why it is not going to happen. jks
>
>Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> wrote:
>
> >
>>The right slogan now I think would come from the
>>following idea, simply stated: "o.k., the war is
>>over, now it's time to bring the troops home. Leave
>>the reconstruction to international bodies."
>
>
>Clinton said that more or less on 60 Minutes sunday. But he added his
>rationale -- that would show the world that the US led war was not
>about oil. i.e., It would prove to all that the peaceniks had it all
>wrong from the get go.
>Marta
>

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