Without guaranteed access to Iraq's oil, we absolutely could not maintain our military and economic dominance of the world. Dick Cheney has known this, even spoken publicly about it, for many years. Why else would he have convened a meeting of Big Oil representatives within his first month in the White House to pore over maps of Iraq's Oil Fields?

Discusses potential and problems of MoveOn.org's full-page $65,000 ad in the New York Times entitled “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?: Cooking the Books for the White House.“

The ad accuses the general of "Cooking the Books for the White House" and asserts "General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts."

Today - as General David Petraeus provides his Iraq assessment to Congress-the anti-war group, MoveOn.org, is running a full - page advertisement in the New York Times with the headline: "General Petraeus or General Betray us? Cooking the books for the White House."

Is there any wonder why people don’t trust their government? If the Bush administration were honest all shades and colors of violence in Iraq would be counted as violence, not just violence inflicted on our troops. But, not this administration. Let’s cook the books accounting practice is the rule of the day for the Bush White House.