Sen. Levin continues ugly ''blame the Iraqis'' meme like landlord berating wife of alcoholic

[yurbud]

wife-beater because the rent is late.

The same day we see the Democratic Party at its best with Obama's speech on race, we also see it at its ugliest, scurrying to do the work of corporate donors.



I just got this email from Carl Levin saying http://www.carllevin.com/news/2008/03/07/levin-warner-ask-gao-to-review-iraqi-oil-revenues-and-reconstruction-funding">he wants to investigate why more Iraqi oil money isn't going into reconstruction. At first glance that might seem reasonable, but then I wondered if by reconstruction Bechtel, Halliburton, and others who have done only token work and pocketed most of our tax dollars that were meant to help Iraqis.

Getting our money back from them and giving it directly to Iraqis should be a higher priority than brow-beating the Iraqis about how they spend their money (aren't they supposed to be sovereign, you simpering corporate boot-lick?)

Likewise, it is almost criminal to mention Iraq's oil income without mentioning that http://www.bushagenda.net/article.php?id=369">Bush is strong-arming them to sign an oil law that will give 88% of their oil income to big oil companies, a deal no other oil rich country in the Persian Gulf would take without a gun to their head. Levin has gone as far as http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/07/sen-carl-levin-criticizes-iraqis-for.html">demanding that the Iraqis hurry up and pass this bill that robs their country of its one source of wealth. You would think that if the war had anything to do with reducing terrorism, we would let the Iraqis pass an oil law that no one in the country could possibly find exploitive.

Levin has misdirected our attention before and http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2005/10/99-of-iraqis-vs-elected-liars.html">even lied about Iraqis ''wanting'' us to stay.

These lies and misplaced priorities must be addressed because we cannot end the war in Iraq until our elected representatives are honest about the big oil and other corporate interests that are keeping us there. Iraq has tens of trillions of dollars worth of oil. Most politicians in Washington are pursuing business for past or future corporate employers, so them invading Iraq and saying it was to stop terrorism or spread democracy is like Homer Simpson breaking into a donut shop and saying he just wanted to do a health inspection.

Carl Levin is like a landlord who goes to collect the rent and finds an apartment door open. In a barcolounger, he sees the husband stinking of alcohol, passed out drunk with a gun in his lap. On the floor, he sees the wife, dressed for her job as a waitress, but with swollen black eyes, bruised arms and legs, and blood trickling out of her nose and mouth, seemingly beaten unconscious.

After surveying the situation, he throws a glass of water in the wife's face to wake her up, then demands to know why the rent is late.

There is actually a couple of problems with my analogy. First, the landlord knows the woman is not his wife. The ''husband'' killed her real husband and her kids five years ago, threw her in his trunk, and took her home as his slave. The wife is Iraq.

Likewise, the landlord would more accurately be the owner of the neighborhood liquor store, who knows full well who is doing all the drinking, but rather than bothering the drunk and possibly losing his business, he picks on the ''wife'' because he knows she has hidden some money from the drunk, hoping that someday she can use it to escape his abuse. The drunk is of course Bush and his big oil and other corporate cronies.

People like Carl Levin must be asked:

Who the fuck do you work for?

Are you working for the American people or a handful of banks, corporations, and wealthy individuals even when it means impoverishing and endangering the rest of us, and even taking the lives of Americans and those in other countries?

Senator Levin, represent us and stop behaving like corporate moral filth.

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[noamnety]

1. K & R !!!

I was just settling in to post my own FU Senator Levin letter here.

My analogy was more like someone breaking into my house, setting it on fire, refusing to leave, cutting off my water and electricity, imposing a curfew on me, and then telling me I was an ungrateful incompetent lazy scum for keeping a vegetable garden in the back yard and having the nerve to can the excess instead of handing it over to my new occupiers as a sign of gratitude.

FU Senator Levin

And fuck your paternalistic colonialist sense of entitlement to the natural resources of a country that we systematically destroyed, and your hypocritical votes for the war funding while speaking out against it.

They don't owe us a fucking dime in return for our actions, and they certainly don't have a moral obligation to cover our expenses so we can afford gasoline at $4 a gallon at home while they go without electricity and clean water.

And fuck your opening question: "I want to know why the struggling American taxpayer is getting stuck with the bill for rebuilding Iraq."

We are stuck with the bill because you voted again and again to stick us with that bill.

[yurbud]

2. I hadn't thought of the irony you pointed out in your last two lines.

[slipslidingaway]

3. Off to the greatest page...

"...These lies and misplaced priorities must be addressed because we cannot end the war in Iraq until our elected representatives are honest about the big oil and other corporate interests that are keeping us there..."

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Thickasabrick]

4. "stop behaving like corporate moral filth" Awesome Line!!! n/t

[yurbud]

5. I like using profanity as much as next guy, but for some reason, in my mind "moral filth" is worse

than any combination of sex, excrement, IQ, and racial slurs.