[Peace-discuss] Why Obama is killing people

[C. G. Estabrook]

You know, it is, up to a point, about oil. When I started looking at Cheney from 
a different point of view, like, two years ago, I didn't think so: I thought 
ideology, I thought protecting Israel ... [but] a lot of it is oil. You talk to 
people and they will tell you, "Yeah, there's the wind and the sun but you 
[inaudible] it in America and where is it coming from?" And there's always been 
an understanding. We tolerate the Saudis, we support the Saudis, who we know 
supply an awful lot of salafists ... their various charities are supplying often 
the same people we're targeting ... I would argue that there's nothing subtle 
about what we do, morally. If you think about it ... we and the Brits always 
assume some imperial right to oil in the Middle East.

--from "text as delivered [sic]" of a speech by journalist Seymour Hersh in 
Doha, Qatar, on Jan. 17, 2011.