Now That's the pot calling the kettle black

Being the cynical pessimist that I am, it is a very rare occasion that someone is able to sink so low that I am left completely flabbergasted.
This week however, I was made aware of a recent quote by the big Texas oilman, T. Boone Pickens. Pickens is quoted as stating that "We're entitled to it"-with regards to Iraqi oil contracts that US energy companies should recieve as compensation for the loss of American troops in Iraq.

Perhaps Mr. Pickens is unaware of what a ginormously, Brobdignagian(I apologize for my Gulliver's Travels reference) mistake the invasion of Iraq was and continues to still be...he IS a Texan after-all. For a look at the Iraqi body count: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

We must of course also mourn the senseless loss of American lives http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htm

but it is the Iraqi people who continue to suffer massive loss of life. Just in one day(Oct. 25) more than 155 people, including 30 children, were killed in Baghdad's "Green Zone". And This is supposed to be the most heavily protected and secure area??

Furthermore, Pickens had just recently been parading around the country trying to sell his "Picken's Plan" http://www.pickensplan.com/theplan/ telling us how "America is addicted to foreign oil. It's an addiction that threatens our economy, our environment and our national security."

To me, Pickens is like the fat lady shamefully admitting that Americans are fat and should diet... while greedily wolfing down the entire pan of brownies. How about we just let that blood-money be and get to building those fancy windmills??