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Bush tells Rush he's 'deeply concerned' about the US leaving the Middle East
(RAW STORY, November 1, 2006)
During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East, raising fears that extremists could topple governments to "control oil resources." "Give me a second here, Rush, because I want to share something with you," Bush said. "I am deeply concerned about a country, the United States, leaving the Middle East." Bush said that he was "worried that rival forms of extremists will battle for power...that they will be in a position to use oil as a tool to blackmail the West." '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.'" "You couple that with a country that doesn't like us with a nuclear weapon, and people will look back at this moment and say, 'What happened to those people in 2006?' and those are the stakes in this war we face," Bush said. Bush goes on to say that he has a plan to "protect you from immediate attack..." as well as a long term strategy that consists of "staying on the offense". The fat man passes judgement on Bush's plans by calling his statements "extremely visionary."

Comment: So, after nearly 4 years and nearly 3000 US dead and untold numbers of US military maimed for life Bush admits that the reason we are in Iraq is to secure a source of oil and protect Israel from a nuclear Iran. Spreading democracy has nothing to do with the real issues other than getting Bubba and the "true believers" to wave the flag. I wonder what Bubba is going to say when we (or most likely the Israelis (with Bush approval)) use nuclear weapons against a sovereign nation we are not at war with. Maybe that'll be visionary also. But that's just this old Curmudgeon's opinion.

posted by A Curmudgeon 8:48 AM