It’s. The. Oil. Stupid.

Rachel Maddow, on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, as usual, cuts effortlessly through the bullshit in explaining exactly what the Iraq war has been about, and why the warmongers don’t want us to leave.

“If you don’t want to be seen as a colonial power, you stop acting like one.”

*chuckle*

(h/t AlterNet)