I AGREE, BUT PLEASE EXPLAIN "GETAWAY CAR"

Tom Morello (he formerly of Rage Against the Machine, and currently of Audioslave) goes after the Iraq war. Some highlights:

"The broader issue is the one that's most important. The Bush administration is looking for a pretext, any pretext, to invade Iraq, in the name of controlling oil reserves and concealing Bush's horrendous domestic record. Forty million Americans live below the poverty line; 50 million are without health care, a lot of them children; corporate crime is at an all-time high -- this is the Enron presidency. And far more damage will be done to the environment in the next twelve months than during the entire Reagan administration. We wouldn't want any of those things on the front page, now, would we? Glorious stories of beheading mustachioed dictators would make far better copy -- and that's just what George W. intends to do."

and

"The dream of the Bush administration is to install a puppet government in Iraq that will kowtow to U.S. interests. Iraq has the second-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world. Controlling that oil will give us leverage over other countries dependent on Iraqi oil. It's a huge poker chip. You can just feel Bush's frustration, that he just can't get this war going. They're like drooling dogs looking at a steak. But they haven't been untethered. Why? Because the rest of the world knows what they're up to. We've been on tour in, like, four or five countries so far -- one of the things that's been obvious to us over here is that people are much more afraid of George W. Bush than of Saddam Hussein. All over Europe there's this belief that our government has gone out of its mind."

Yes! And for the rest of you, "wake up!" (: