OK, Scratch that Last Post about Libya, Sort of

  We have invaded Libya because Gadaffi threatened to sell oil for Euros instead of dollars. I was wrong about the whole war for oil thing.  Kinda.
  Y'know, how is a person supposed to keep up with all the shit he has to know these days?  Plus hold down a job and a weight-loss program?
  Jesus Coconut Christ.
  OK, I may still be wrong, but check this out:
1.  Iraq switched to the Euro, even though it lost money, just to fuck with us. Here's TIME magazine reporting Saddam's decision to sell oil in euros in November 2000.
2.  Here's what some people were floating before the Iraq war in January 2003:

"The real reason the Bush administration wants a puppet government in Iraq -- or more importantly, the reason why the corporate-military-industrial network conglomerate wants a puppet government in Iraq -- is so that it will revert back to a dollar standard and stay that way." (While also hoping to veto any wider OPEC momentum towards the euro, especially from Iran -- the 2nd largest OPEC producer who is actively discussing a switch to euros for its oil exports)."

and here, just after hostilities started:

The unprovoked "shock and awe" attack on Iraq was to serve several economic purposes: (1) Safeguard the U.S. economy by re-denominating Iraqi oil in U.S. dollars, instead of the euro, to try to lock the world back into dollar oil trading so the U.S. would remain the dominant world power-militarily and economically. (2) Send a clear message to other oil producers as to what will happen to them if they abandon the dollar matrix. (3) Place the second largest oil reserve under direct U.S. control. (4) Create a subject state where the U.S. can maintain a huge force to dominate the Middle East and its oil. (5) Create a severe setback to the European Union and its euro, the only trading block and currency strong enough to attack U.S. dominance of the world through trade. (6) Free its forces (ultimately) so that it can begin operations against those countries that are trying to disengage themselves from U.S. dollar imperialism-such as Venezuela, where the U.S. has supported the attempted overthrow of a democratic government by a junta more friendly to U. S. business/oil interests. 

The idea being that once we took over Iraq, we could switch it back to the dollar and also increase its daily output from the OPEC-agreed upon production level of 2.5 million barrels a day up to maybe 7 million a day.  This would act as a control on oil prices (keeping them low) and sap power away from the cartel.
3. We did go to war in Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction (no need to cite a source).

I'm ron-a-ree

4. North Korea actually had weapons of mass destruction at the time and we never invaded them. According to the Navy:

"Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported on August 6, 2003, that North Korea and Iran were negotiating a deal for the export of the long-range Taepo Dong-2 missile to Iran and the joint development of nuclear warheads. U.S. officials reportedly told Japanese counterparts in July 2003 that North Korea was close to developing nuclear warheads for its missiles. They claimed in September 2003 that North Korea had developed a more accurate, longer-range intermediate ballistic missile that could reach Okinawa and Guam (site of major U.S. military bases) and that there was evidence that North Korea had produced the Taepo Dong-2, which could reach Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. west coast. . .  According to U.S. News and World Report, September 1, 2003, the CIA estimated that North Korea could produce a uranium-based atomic weapon by the second half of 2004."

5. Saddam was conveniently executed and most of the officials of his regime assassinated.
6. The truth may never be known, and the currency devaluation threat and scheme to defuse OPEC makes more sense than the reasons given for the invasion: BTW Iraqi oil production is expected to reach 6.5 billion barrels a day by 2014, all in dollars.

  So it's all too much.  While I don't know if this possibly mentally-ill person is correct, I don't believe we bombed Libya in order to protect its version of MoveOn.org. But I can't take it anymore. It's not my fucking job to save the world.  I'm starting a band.
  I wish the government would just be honest and say it - you people are in love with your cars and if you want to keep driving on $2 gas, we have to kill innocent people, including children.
  Maybe then a few more people would carpool and ride bikes. What with the dead children and all.

this is what war always looks like. always.

P.S. the europeans are way better than us at this world domination shit.  I'll be bringing a sleeping bag to Oktoberfest this year.  Maybe I'll start an oom-pah band.