Bush Cites Oil As a Reason to Stay in Iraq

Bush Says U.S. Pullout Would Let Iraq Radicals Use Oil as a Weapon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/04/AR2006110401025.html

The "F-word"*. Prepare to be "F'd -up" - Vox

...""There are certain things like that, myths, that are floating around," Rumsfeld told Steve Kroft of CBS Radio in November 2002. "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.""

""Nonsense," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared."

"Now, more than 3 1/2 years later, someone else is asserting that the war is about oil -- President Bush."
""You can imagine a world in which these extremists and radicals got control of energy resources,"..."And then you can imagine them saying, 'We're going to pull a bunch of oil off the market to run your price of oil up unless you do the following. And the following would be along the lines of, well, 'Retreat and let us continue to expand our dark vision.' ""
"Bush said extremists controlling Iraq "would use energy as economic blackmail" and try to pressure the United States to abandon its alliance with Israel. At a stop in Missouri on Friday, he suggested that such radicals would be "able to pull millions of barrels of oil off the market, driving the price up to $300 or $400 a barrel.""
"The world, in fact, has already seen what would happen if Iraqi oil were cut off entirely, as Bush suggests radicals might do. Iraq effectively stopped pumping oil altogether in the months immediately after the invasion. And yet the price of oil has never topped $80, much less come anywhere near the $300 or $400 a barrel Bush cited as a possible consequence of a radical Iraqi regime withholding the country's oil."

Ahhh, simple thoughts from a simpleton communicating with his base.

- Vox

* - fear