Sure, the Iraq war was the Dems fault.
The no spin zone.
I blame the war on the usurper Saddam, who did not have to invade Kuwait (to pay for the predictable war with his enemy), which ultimately created United Nations(of tyrants too) resolutions and Oil for Food that should have ended the first time the cease-fire was broken:
CNN - Iraqi defector to give excusive - Sept 21, 1995
But, then again, you might be right, "
the Iraq war was the Dems fault":
"We are fighting and dying for Exxon Mobile Profits.
Look at the line of Bull Poop the the Oil Executives gave congress the other day. All smoke screen, lies and the religion of greed." (dragonslayer)
"Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders sent the following letter today to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman William E. Kovacic urging him to investigate record gas prices. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 gives the FTC the authority to probe possible market manipulation of gas prices, but to date, the Commission has failed to exercise its power to protect consumers from skyrocketing energy costs."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
"Proponents of the infamous Kyoto Protocol on global warming argue that this is about the price that is required in order to reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide to 7 percent below where they were in 1990, as mandated by the treaty. This price, they argue, will change behavior. Mainly, people will buy more economical cars."
More Gas about Global Warming
March 14, 2000"...if the U.S. is to ever even come close to meeting its commitments under the international treaty to combat global warming, prices at the pump may need to go up a lot higher than they have in recent months."
CNN.com - Higher gas prices could have a silver lining - March 14, 2000
"I believe the American people deserve a president who just isn't going to have a friendly talk, but who is going to fight to guarantee that we lower prices for Americans," Kerry said.” (John Kerry)
USATODAY.com - Kerry criticizes Bush on meeting with Saudi leader
“I'm here today to say if there was no deal, if there was no agreement, then stand up today and
jawbone OPEC to lower the price," Kerry said. "They could up that production tomorrow. We need to have them answer why they won't do that."
USATODAY.com - Kerry criticizes Bush on meeting with Saudi leader
Need to Jawbone OPEC, look for an OPEC member you can work with, as you want two known enemies (OPEC members) sitting next to each other; Now what country was the Jawbone of an ___ kicked out of prior to going to Mayor Jacques Chirac's Paris:
Air France is so nice.
“Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.”
Oh, I remember, the Jawbone of an ___ was expelled from not quite totally Saddam's Iraq.
June 30, 1979: “a weary Jimmy Carter was looking forward to a few days' vacation in Hawaii, as Air Force One sped him away from a grueling economic summit in Tokyo. He had earned it. Two weeks earlier, Carter had successfully concluded the SALT II arms control negotiations with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna, the latest in a series of foreign policy achievements since the dramatic Camp David summit the previous September.
Aboard the plane, the phone rang. It was Carter's pollster, Patrick Caddell. "I remember getting on the phone and saying, 'You people have got to come home now,'" Caddell recalls. "We were all saying the same thing: 'You have no idea how bad it is here.'"
The Energy CrisisThat week, the energy crisis that Carter had been trying to avoid since taking office had finally erupted.
The OPEC oil producers' cartel had recently announced another in a series of oil price increases that sent gasoline prices skyrocketing and led to severe shortages. Long gas-pump lines and short tempers started in California and spread eastward, focusing Americans' outrage over a seemingly endless economic decline.”
American Experience | Jimmy Carter | People & Events
July 16, 1979: “Saddam Hussein becomes president of Iraq, after engineering the resignation of president Hasan al-Bakr.”
Iraq timeline: July 16 1979 to January 31 2004 | Iraq | guardian.co.uk
Who would have thought old slave holding Democrats ignoring the 444 days of glory in Iran and endless calls for "Death to America," for the lukewarm "liberal" arts of war of Oil for Food and Peace for Greed on the backs of slaves, which lead to
One Iraq, Two Iraq, Three Iraq!, but attacking the evil Republicans freeing the slaves by removal of the containment of the cork in the bottle containing the scary Shiites of Iran in violation of the purposes of the United Nations is Okay?
CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS: Chapter I
“A brutal, oppressive dictator, guilty of personally murdering and condoning murder and torture, grotesque violence against women, execution of political opponents, a war criminal who used chemical weapons against another nation and, of course, as we know, against his own people, the Kurds. He has diverted funds from the Oil-for-Food program, intended by the international community to go to his own people. He has supported and harbored terrorist groups, particularly radical Palestinian groups such as Abu Nidal, and he has given money to families of suicide murderers in Israel.
I mention these not because they are a cause to go to war in and of themselves, as the President previously suggested, but because they tell a lot about the threat of the weapons of mass destruction and the nature of this man. We should not go to war because these things are in his past, but we should be prepared to go to war because of what they tell us about the future.” (TEXT FROM THE SPEECH JOHN KERRY MADE ON THE SENATE FLOOR October 9, 2002)
Oooh, it is not a war on terror, it is a war on WMD.
“Varney: Is it possible that America’s interests have, in fact, been well served by the war in Iraq? Let me explain that. We have taken the fight to the enemy. The enemy is divided completely. And the enemy is now killing itself, fighting each other. Is that not long term, in a way, in America’s strategic interests?
Clark: Well, actually, I don’t think so. The ‘enemy’ so to speak, were the people that attacked us on 9/11. Saddam had really nothing to do directly with those people. He didn’t encourage the attack, he didn’t aid it. He wasn’t part of it, in fact they viewed Saddam as part of the enemy camp. So we attacked Afghanistan, we took out the government that supported the people that attacked us and then, in my view, in a strategic blunder, moved against Saddam Hussein.
He was contained. Yes he was an unpleasant person. Yes he was a potential danger like every tyrant I guess is. But he couldn’t directly strike the United States and
he was performing the function of a ‘cork in the bottle’ in the Persian Gulf containing the power of Iran. We removed him.” (Transcript of Stewart Varney interview of General Wesley Clark on Your World Cavuto, Fox News)
“So yes as long as we are supporting harsh brutal governments blocking democracy and development because of our interests in controlling the oil resources of the region there will be a campaign of hatred against us.” (Chomsky)
U.S. "Enhancing Terror"
Damn slavery (Oil for Food) supporting Democrats...
Oooh, oooh, Iran is dangerous, and the Shiites might attack the Sunni protectors of the Two Holy Cites. We need to protect them.
Operation Desert Shielder II--not in China's oil rich Sudan shielding black folks from the Fuzzy Wuzzy, but where someone other than Gorby will have to say, "that is far enough," keeping the blood sucking from ending--anyone?
"But this is an election year, and not even environmentalist Al Gore is going to risk telling voters that gas price hikes may actually help cool the planet."
CNN.com - Higher gas prices could have a silver lining - March 14, 2000
I guess that is what is going on...
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