jstol3's Blog

There has been a partnership for many, many years between the American people and the oil companies (mostly unadmitted). As a nation we have provided a stable platform for the oil companies to operate from, We have provided soldiers, sailors and marines to make the oilfields safe for drilling and pumping. This has been a mostly unacknowlwdged sacrifice on the part of American youth. It is a sacrifice which very few admit to and many like to point fingers at.

Today is the anniversary of D-Day. The day when the US and its allies spent thousands of lives to defend the world against naziism and facism so we could all be free - people and corporations (oil companies included).

On this day the oil companies should celebrate the fact that they are free to pusue profits, free of some tyrant dictating to them how much they can charge for their product.

Instead they do so by raping this country and its people who have always been there  to defend the cause of freedom, corporate and individual.

The oil companies say little, if anything, in defense of their rape (they know they are wrong) and they continue to expect young men and women to die willingly for their profits.

How long will we put up with this?

I do not write this as an anti-war advocate. I write this as a US citizen who is tired of being taken advantage of. I do not write this in  dissent of the war in Iraq.

Where is the response from the oil companies to explain their anti-American behavior?