{"id":302,"date":"2003-01-03T23:01:27","date_gmt":"2003-01-04T03:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-10-24T23:13:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T03:13:57","slug":"super-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Super Service!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revisiting the meme that never fails: Blood For Oil.<\/strong> By this time, more and more people in actual positions of influence were “outing” the real reason for the wars in Iraq: to brutalize and intimidate the population while making off with their oil. US Congressman Dennis Kucinich, in a rare ballsy moment, actually came right out and publicly blurted out the truth that sent the pro-war factions into conniptions: this was a war for oil and resources, and had nothing to do with the (non-existent) WMDs or with restoring democracy (the claimed purpose after the WMD claims were debunked). By this time, I’d developed a pretty much foolproof system for determining whether something was true or not: if it was in the Washington Post<\/em> or on TV, it was a sure bet that it was false, and if somebody said something that sent the mainstream punditocracy and pro-war howlers into a shrieking tizzy, you could be sure that it was true.
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My research for this piece consisted of hitting Google for some scans of old gasoline advertising from back in the days when gas-station attendants wore actual uniforms with hats and bowties, and — now I can confess to it — nabbing the title from a favorite old Three Stooges comedy in which the Stooges were running a gas station (“Super Service! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk…”).<\/p>\n

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