At 11:50 AM -0500 3/24/05, OpinionJournal wrote: >'I Just Feel So Bitter' >http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/vpr/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=753169 > > >Remember Jim Jeffords? Neither do we, but he's the U.S. senator from >Vermont who achieved historical-footnote status in 2001 when he left the >Republican Party and handed control of the Senate to Democrats for a >little over 19 months. Yesterday Vermont Public Radio interviewed Jeffords >and, we're guessing, reminded Republicans of why they're glad to be rid of >him: > >*** QUOTE *** > >Host: Sen. Jim Jeffords says he won't be surprised if the Bush >administration launches a war with Iran next year. Speaking Tuesday night >on VPR's "Switchboard" program, Jeffords says he remains convinced that >president Bush went to war in Iraq in order to control that country's oil >supply and to bolster the president's chances of winning re-election to a >second term. > >Jeffords: I think it was all done to get--all that's the end result is >going to be some oil agreement and the loss of life that we had. And the >cost of it, to many was just a re-election move and they're going to try >to live off it and probably start another war. Wouldn't be surprised next >year, probably in Iran. > >Host: Jeffords says he fears that President Bush will use the same tactics >to invade Iran in the coming year. > >Jeffords: I just feel so bitter about the thinking that's gone on behind >them and the reasons they go to war, went to war. But I feel very strongly >that they're looking ahead and there will be an opportunity to go into >Iran. > >Host: Jeffords says nothing has happened in Iraq that justifies the Bush >administration's decision to go to war in that country. He says he'll >strongly oppose efforts to expand the war to Iran. > >*** END QUOTE *** > >So let's see if we have this straight: According to Jeffords, the >president went to war in Iraq to "control the country's oil supply" and to >help his own re-election chances. This doesn't quite jibe with what >happened, which is that Bush was re-elected even though Iraq's oil >industry, which America doesn't control at any rate, is operating at far >from full capacity and U.S. gasoline prices are quite high compared with >recent years. > >"Nothing has happened" to justify "the Bush administration's decision" >(actually it was Congress's) to go to war. Apparently Jeffords hasn't >heard about the Iraqi elections. Oh, and now he thinks the administration >is making plans to "go into Iran." Why? To get their oil and help Bush get >re-elected again? > >Between this guy and Howard Dean, Vermont has become a laughingstock, the >Mississippi of the 21st century.
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