Horton: This is one of the real contradictions of this policy for anybody who has family over there serving in the military

Horton: This is one of the real contradictions of this policy for anybody who has family over there

serving in the military. That our soldiers are fighting the Sunni insurgency that they [our soldiers]

are there to protect from the Shi’ite majority that we have installed in power.

Palast: Right. So what is happening now, is that we have a… I feel terribly sorry for American troops,

because they are literally… The way it is being finally put is that our troops have been put in the

middle of a civil MBT SHOES. It is put in religious terms, and people think in terms of Ireland: you

know – Catholics versus Protestants or something.

This is the wrong way of looking at it. The only way that these two factions, the Shia and the Sunni,

have power is because they are funded by two fighting factions of the OPEC oil cartel.

You’ve got NIKE SHOX fighting at one end, by supporting the Shia militias. Then you have the Saudis

supporting the so-called Sunni insurgency. It is really a proxy MBT SHOES over control of OPEC. In

fact, it is very interesting about this so-called October surprise that occurred just before the mid-

term, this marked sudden drop in the price of oil. I am told by insiders in the oil industry, that

while this was to help MBT SPORT SHOES out in the mid-term as everyone expected, the big issue for the

Saudis was to kind of take a little wind out of the sails of Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez.