Interview with Greg Palast

Sooner Thought has the interview.

Turns out I have a little document that danced its way out of the file cabinets at the State Department showing that long before the invasion we had a plan to sell off the assets of Iraq. To divide up--and the words are ‘especially in the oil and supporting industries.’ So, you know, exactly eight minutes into his speech announcing we were going to war…our president turned and said ‘I want to speak to the Iraqi people... and said ‘Do not burn oil wells.’ Now we know why—they were going to be his.

Unfortunately this is what people suspected, and now you see it in black and white. Now I’m not going to say that we went in for the oil, but it’s clear from the documents that we sure as hell were not going to leave without it.


Part Two.

Americans are very good at saying ‘don’t tread on me,' that’s why I moved back. I mean, God Bless America. I moved back because I want my kids to be Americans. Despite the temporary weasels, and the fact that we don’t have an elected government for the moment, eventually the coup de etat will come to an end because Americans have a limited capacity to eat shit. At a certain point rural communities will say ‘I’m sorry, take your Chinese prison toys and sell them somewhere else. We don’t need you to destroy our lives and our communities. And people do say that. Yeah, they do want things hot, quick and cheap, but at a point they say ‘What are our lives worth to us? What is it we want in the end? Do we want twelve dollar disposable toaster--which is the crap you get—for cheap, or do we want to have a special place called America which is different and unique in every state and every place?”