“What Barry Says” — Four years later and just as scary

Though it seems, from random readings on the net, that the neocons have lost considerable power with the huge disapproval of the American public for the current administration, it bears keeping in mind that the same ideas presented here are still very much in play. Corporatism in its worst incarnation, in my opinion, continues to drive our current involvement in Iraq. It ain’t about WMDs, it ain’t about bringing “freedom” to the Iraqi people. It’s oil profits and defense spending.

This video was made in 2003, and I downloaded a copy in 2004. In those years, it seems much of what Barry McNamera warns about is much more common knowledge — Bush is a figurehead, and corporate interests are calling the shots through Dick Cheney. As a commenter at StumbleUpon said just yesterday, “Watch out world.”