Wht if Bush was right about Iraq all the time?

[NickPapageorgio]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Feb 1 2005, 05:57 PM
This is nice NickP, and I agree with you - but I have a dirty little secret that you may find distasteful, even uncomfortable.

The WMD/Hummanitarian issue are only secondary issue to the one that trumps everything.

OIL

Free flow of oil = economic security.

This is the policy of the US, and will be for a long time - not matter WHO is President.

Past policy was to support dictators in the middle east. This has pretty much backfired on us since Iran in the 1970s. Saudi Arabia is just as bad, Iraq, etc...
The whole region is a mess. But they have the oil which is important for the US and hence world economy.

Bush is trying another angle, democracy. Will it work? Is it just window dressing for a new puppet gov't? These are the questions.

I do not think you understand the economic realities. What would happen if mid east oil was not available to market? Imagine a world where oil was $1,000 a barrel? The US economy would be devistated in months, it would make the great depression look like the good-old days.

NickP, I know this is a lot to chew on. But it is the reality we live in.

Nick the Pikey - You of all people should appreciate the strategy Bush has used.

But what was the thing which prodded it is my question? I understand our need to sustain our own economy, even though I believe there are viable options besides oil that could be being used as we speak but big oil lobbyist just won't have that now will they?

My question is, why? Wasn't the oil flowing just fine? And why not just come out and say that instead of this whole scare tactic shit? Why does gas cost more now, even though we have all this oil "secured", than it did before we went in?