Iraq? No! Really, It Was Never about the Oil!

So, it turns out that Peter W. Galbraith, "an influential former American ambassador," who helped create Iraq's constitution back in 2004, stands to make as much a $100 million in oil revenues as a result of favorable arrangements between a company he is heavily invested in and the Kurds, The New York Times reports.

Galbraith, whose views affected policy advocated by Vice President Biden and former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, evidently never listened to then President George W. Bush's proclamation that the war was not about oil.

When Darth Vader proclaimed that the war would pay for itself, this was evidently what he had in mind. American taxpayers pay for the war, sending the economy into the toilet, and then a Norwegian oil company—that's right, Norwegian oil company—gets rich off of it.

Let's pause once again, one day after Veteran's Day, to thank our troupes for their sacrifices, while Galbraith and his ilk laugh all the way to the bank.

Where's that 90 percent tax bill?!!