Posted by Toph on November 5, 2004, at 11:03:37
In reply to Re: oil men » Toph, posted by AuntieMel on November 4, 2004, at 16:44:00
Melanie, I hate stereotypes too. I am a social worker and you can imagine how I feel about the stereotype of the bleeding heart female do-gooders that people have of socialworkers. By identifying Bush and Cheney as oilmen I was questioning their motives for direrting their attention away from destroying al Qaeda (the enemy) and invading a county that had no WMD or any link to al Qaeda. Iraq did have oil and thank God the Commander in Chief secured the oil fields before he secured the hospitals and ammunition dumps that contained weapons that are killing American soldiers now. When I think of oil men I think of Halliburton which benefited from the invasion of Iraq as did Cheney formerly who was Halliburton's CEO. Halliburton is currently under investigation for ripping American taxpayers off over there.
But not all oil workers are bad, that's for sure, much as not all social workers are good.
-Toph
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