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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5 2006 11:00 PM

Bush Protests Himself, Claims Iraq War Is About Oil

Tags: Iraq, Bush, Rumsfeld, Oil, WMD

George Bush finally came around about his reasoning for being in Iraq. During the lead up to the invasion the administration told us we needed to get rid of Saddam Hussein because of mythical WMDs. Since then, we have heard many reasons, none plausible. Oil was certainly never the reason.

"There are certain things like that, myths, that are floating around," Rumsfeld said in November 2002. "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil."

But now its election time and what scares people better than $400 a barrel oil? Bush has been on the election trail campaigning for ill-fated Republicans and telling Americans that oil is a reason to stay in Iraq. Hello desperation.

Bush is now claiming that if we pull the troops out our sweet, precious cars will be fucked because we would hand all that wonderful oil over to insurgents. And they would use the oil as a WEAPON!

"You can imagine a world in which these extremists and radicals got control of energy resources. And then you can imagine them saying, 'We're going to pull a bunch of oil off the market to run your price of oil up unless you do the following. And the following would be along the lines of, well, 'Retreat and let us continue to expand our dark vision.' "

First of all, nobody with a dark vision says, I want to expand my dark vision. They actually dont think it is a dark vision; they believe it is a delightful vision. Please George, tell us more.

Bush said extremists controlling Iraq "would use energy as economic blackmail" and try to pressure the United States to abandon its alliance with Israel. He suggested that such radicals would be "able to pull millions of barrels of oil off the market, driving the price up to $300 or $400 a barrel."

Oh, God! Not $400 a barrel. I would rather fucking die. Thank the sweet Lord that the Republicans are in charge because they keep oil prices so low with their invading and threatening of all the countries that have oil. Sadly for Bush he is full of shit. If Iraq fell into the hands of radicals it would have little to no effect on oil prices. How do we know this? Because in 2003 a country named the United States invaded Iraq and oil production stopped for months. The price of oil never went above $80.

But experts do agree that Iran could "play mischief" because it already controls much of Iraqi oil in the southern part of the country. So we have that going for us.

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Comments

Quirky

Birmingham, AL

October 2005

NOV 05, 2006 11:07 PM

"Dark Vision," "Economic Blackmail," "God's Will."
Spooky Language.
SPOOKY LANGUAGE designed to intimidate and control primitive people, I mean republican voters.

Trevallion

Murfreesboro, TN

February 2004

NOV 05, 2006 11:11 PM

Heaven forbid he talk about alternative energy sources when he's preaching about the horrors of high oil prices.

Andvari

Calgary, AB

April 2005

NOV 05, 2006 11:14 PM

Groan

Holden_Caulfield

Ann Arbor, MI

April 2004

NOV 05, 2006 11:16 PM

coolhanderik

Massapequa, NY

November 2005

NOV 05, 2006 11:22 PM

That's my bush!

abracadabra

Seattle, WA

April 2004

NOV 05, 2006 11:22 PM

It's almost as if he's speaking in the third person here..spooky indeed

DieWhiteGirls

Madison, WI

July 2005

NOV 05, 2006 11:23 PM

FEAR! SCARE! PROPAGANDA! VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS WILL PUT TERRORISTS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE! VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS AND BIN LADEN WILL BE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! VOTE FOR OIL IN 2006!

I'm wetting my pants in anticipation of Tuesday. I'm skipping classes, calling in to work, and spending the day at the polls. Oh, what a glorious day it will be.

SouthernDJ

Duluth, GA

September 2006

NOV 05, 2006 11:29 PM

Would it be too much to ask for just ONE person in America to report the news without making every article or story just another rant about how their political view is correct, no matter how far from reality it actually is?

Yeah, I guess that would be asking too much.

SouthernDJ

Duluth, GA

September 2006

NOV 05, 2006 11:31 PM

DieWhiteGirls said:
FEAR! SCARE! PROPAGANDA! VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS WILL PUT TERRORISTS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE! VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS AND BIN LADEN WILL BE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! VOTE FOR OIL IN 2006!

I'm wetting my pants in anticipation of Tuesday. I'm skipping classes, calling in to work, and spending the day at the polls. Oh, what a glorious day it will be.

Exaggeration is an artform. It's a liberal art.

seanvegas

Lincoln, NE

December 2004

NOV 05, 2006 11:34 PM

I just can't wait to see the look on Bush's face is the Dems do end up controlling the house and senate!

DieWhiteGirls

Madison, WI

July 2005

NOV 05, 2006 11:34 PM

Wait, I'm not off my soapbox.

Staying in Iraq for oil? Putting soldiers in harms way, soldiers that are supposed to be defending our freedoms, to make sure that I don't pay $10 a gallon for gas? FUCK THAT. Bring them home, take all of my money and stuff it directly into my gas tank. I have no problem with that. And if anyone says they'd rather have our Armed Service members being killed rather then paying $10-$20 a gallon for gas, I'd contend that THEY should be sent to Iraq. This is fucking disgusting. Bush is saying that it's OK for our troops to die, as long as we have cheap gas.

Do the world a favor and vote anything but Republican on Tuesday. Vote for Libertarians, Independents, Communists, I don't care. But please, do not allow the current regime of neoconservatives to continue their reign of greed. Please.

DieWhiteGirls

Madison, WI

July 2005

NOV 05, 2006 11:35 PM

SouthernDJ said:

Exaggeration is an artform. It's a liberal art.

Are you serious? Have you seen the fearmongering created by the Bush administration? You must have your blinders set to...erm, blind?