September 27, 2004

• Lt. Col. Kwiatkowski,

  I found a link to your article on a popular news website I visit frequently (fark.com). After reading the linked article ( “Leadership Matters“), I went on to read more of your articles. Scathing and brutally honest. I’ve bookmarked your column page and will be checking it for new articles in the future. Kudos to you and your intelligent, insightful and honest articles. I am a new fan.

  In your article “Routine Messages From The Pentagon – And The Truth“, near the end you state “There were only two credible reasons for invading Iraq: control over oil and preservation of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.”
  The problem I have with this statement is scientific rather than political (though in turn, it changes the politics of the reasons). Simply stated, oil is not a finite resource. Rather, it is a self-renewing resource created by the internal pressure of the Earth and its plate tectonics. Over a 50 year period, Soviet and American scientists have proven over and over again that crude oil is not from organic origins. Assuming (and by “assuming”, I mean taking half a century of empirical data into account) this is true, we come to a myriad of implications. The first and foremost is the reasons for our invasion of Iraq. If there really is no war for oil (since it isn’t finite), what’s the real reason, economics or gaining the popular vote? Secondly, is the current U.S. administration so uninformed that they believe that crude oil actually comes from big piles of dead dinosaurs? I am sure you will see more into this than I do.
  In closing, I’ll provide the address of a website containing a good deal of information about the abiotic (non-organic) origins of oil.

  http://www.gasresources.net/index.htm

  Thanks

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