Emission accomplished?

This blog's name notwithstanding, I'm not a conspiracy buff by nature. So, I was never quick to conclude that the Iraq War was truly a blood-for-oil swap.

But like Helen Thomas, I keep scratching my head about why a nice young man like Dubya would start this cockamamie thing.

I'm still leaning toward the Oedipal theory, that he wanted to one-up his dad by transcending the, er, "mother of all wars."

Guardian writer Greg Palast presents evidence that Bush invaded Iraq to suppress the flow of oil, to inflate prices for his greasy oiligopoly buddies.

He cites a secret, 323-page State Department plan that outlines the scheme. Is it all true? I dunno.

But this much is verifiable: as Palast reminds us, this whole God-forsaken (or, rather, God-overstocked) endeavor was originally called Operation Iraqi Liberation, or "O.I.L."

O.I.L.??? Talk about hiding in plain sight!

Jesus, that's like finding out the Katrina plan that led to fat no-bid contracts and the vanillification of New Orleans was originally called "Hurricane Allows Large Lobbyists to Increase Business via Urban Reconstruction and Throwing Out Negroes," or "H.A.L.L.I.B.U.R.T.O.N."