Give me a second here, Rush, because I want to share something with you. I am deeply concerned about a country, the United States, leaving the Middle East. I am worried that rival forms of extremists will battle for power, obviously creating incredible damage if they do so; that they will topple modern governments, that they will be in a position to use oil as a tool to blackmail the West. People say, "What do you mean by that?" I say, "If they control oil resources, then they pull oil off the market in order to run the price up, and they will do so unless we abandon Israel, for example, or unless we abandon allies.
Of course, It also just highlights the fact that our president is a blooming idiot. Now, where to start? How about with the fact that this supposed oil-man apparently has no effing clue how the world oil markets work.
First of all, Iraq hasn't the production capability to threaten the world markets. We are getting by without Iraqi oil now, so what would change, really? If the Iraqi supply were to be cut off it would just inspire greater production from Venezuela, Nigeria, Canada, Mexico and the North Sea producers.
Nobody is going to control Iranian oil besides Iranians. If the Iranians can't see to that by their own devices, I am pretty sure that the Chinese would have their backs, because they have an even greater appetite for the sticky black stuff than Americans do.
Oil fuels the economic engine, world-wide, and that is a fact. But some of us do not feel that is sufficient cause to invade sovereign nations, occupy their land and construct hardened permanent bases. We certainly do not feel it is sufficient reason to bury 2800 American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines.
Instead, being the sober adults that we are, we would have much prefered the money that we have charged on that Chinese credit card to fight the war in Iraq to have been spent pursuing alternative and clean energy sources. That would have made much more sense, and I bet they could even have cajoled Halliburton into producing wind turbines and solar panels.
Every newspaper in the land should scream from the headlines tomorrow morning BUSH CONFESSES...IT WAS ALL ABOUT OIL AFTER ALL. But they won't. Where is this "liberal media"I keep hearing about?
