If ELF wants to blame SUV owners for Washington's invasion of Iraq on the basis of America's dependence on foreign oil, they should also be attacking environmentalists who have opposed even reasonable efforts to develop greater domestic sources of oil in Alaska and off the pacific coastline.

We wouldn't have a dependence on foreign oil, if domestic oil wasn't made artificially inaccessible, now would we? The military-industrial complex loves the environmental movement - without it, today's oil wars wouldn't be nearly as fierce.

It's so much easier standing up to strangers, than standing up to friends, isnt it?

This isn't about peace. It's about tribalism. My side vs your side. Us vs them. Teams, gangs, races, political parties.. they just want to draw lines wherever it's convenient, and maintain some kind of xenophobix tension to encourage cohesion and unity in their space against "the enemy".

Same as the warhawks.

Homo sapiens have been forming groups and attacking other groups in these silly mutual kill-or-be-killed contests for hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of years. The only difference today is we have fancy labels and rationalizations for the ever-changing lines they draw.

Same shit, different millenium.

If you really wanted to stop the oil wars, you'd research which CARB and CARBOB refiners import how much oil from oil-war-stricken countries, and start a movement to promote gas stations which sell guys refined only free market oil, and boycott those stations which sell gas refined from Iraq and other sources where oil piracy is occuring.

Look at the diamond industry and the ban on "conflict diamonds" from mines in nations like Sierra Leone, if you want a perfect example.

But no, the environmentalists will continue helping the military-industrial complex by using the American DoJ to restrict domestic oil supply and create the conditions which cause oil war. Meanwhile, activists will never say a word.

Just like the DoJ restricts the supply of recreational drugs, thus skyrocketing demand and prices, thus creating drug crimes.. and then points at those crimes to justify their existance. Meanwhile, supporters of law and order will never say a word.

You people, and those who oppose you, are ALL insane.

-Van