I'm confused. Now you are saying that we had to invade Iraq to protect the oil? I thought you said it wasn't worth it?
On 11/6/06, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > I can't believe educated people still believe that BS about protecting > oil. > > Wow, I can't believe anyone doesn't believe this. Why the hell do you > think the US has had a presence in the Middle East for the last 60 > years? Because we like the dry heat? Catch up. > > Maybe you haven't noticed but Bin Laden doesn't give 2 sh1ts about > money or living in palaces. If he controlled Saudi Arabia (and Iran > and Iraq, etc, etc) he could easily stop Middle East oil supplies and > us the resulting price spike to manipulate world policy: "do what I > want or no oil" > > Translation: as long as the US economy is dependent on oil and there's > an oil supplier willing to withhold that oil there's a threat to US > security. No president for the last 60 years has solved the problem > of securing the free and constant flow of oil. > > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:219711 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
