Crap in My Head: Geopolitical Bullet Points

Intermixing of Unocal and other Big Oil interests in Afghanistan — current ambassador and current US-appointed administrator are former Unocal executives

No-bid contracting of post-war Iraq to US companies close to Bush

Signing Patriot Act #2 on the same day Saddam is captured to avoid scrutiny

Britain and US were allies of Japan in the 1920s and US even sold war material to Japan through the late 1930s with some reports of the 1940s

Britain and US sold Opium to China for 100 years often at gunpoint

US sold war material to Germany including IBM computers through the late 1930s

Lack of universal healthcare much more of a problem now that I have experienced the benefit in Korea

Labeling any discussion or critique of W. Bush as anti-American — you must support the troops!

The bin Laden family has been a major investor of the Bush family going back 25 years

British companies sold biological weapons up to 1996 until Parliament was able to finally shut the sales down after a couple of previous attempts

Bush freely admits he doesn't read any sources of news, rather he gets his news from just two people: Condoleezza Rice, and one guy whose name escapes me

Fannie Mae, et al. eventually buy up over 75% of the mortgages in the USA, and their ratio of Loan to Assets exceeds 100:1

Net foreign investment in the USA is falling for the last few years for the first time in perhaps 60 years

Richest 1% of families in the US have done very well through the last recession where Americans as a whole have lost 2 to 3 million non-farm jobs

The bin Laden family (25 members) were flown out of the United States on 9/13 — just two days after 9-11. Despite the fiercest of protest from the FBI

JFK should have been court-martialed for PT 109 — NOT a war hero

Joseph Kennedy actually bought alcohol directly from Al Capone, and was the reason for rent control in Manhattan

A member of the Saudi Royal family met with W. Bush on the evening of 9-13 for a few hours of private consultation