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2008-07-26 Iraq

Now Congress Wants to Interfere in Iraqi Oil

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Posted by Bobby 2008-07-26 11:25|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 serving the longterm interests of Iraq and/or the U.S. is not part of the Democrat Party strategy. Serving the Democrat Party is.

Used to be the political parties looked for votes and advancing national interests. The Donks seem to look to fight wars in areas that contain no national interests, and refuse to fight or win in areas that do. Cowards and self-promoting treasonists

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-26 13:11|| 2008-07-26 13:11|| Front Page Top

#2 "serving the longterm interests of Iraq and/or the U.S. is not part of the Democrat Party strategy. Serving the Democrat Party is."

The Dems drank deep of the "no blood for oil" crowd.

"It's all about the oil" has always sounded stupid to me. Now that it's 2008 and we've won in Iraq, I'm thinking that it sounds stupid to quite a few people.

But it's too late for the Democrats; The die is cast. They have to dance with the one who brung 'em. And I think it's going to cost them. Once again, I think the democrats are going to outcompete the republicans for blowing an election. And sadly, yet one more election cycle that I wish BOTH sides could lose.

Posted by Bin thinking again 2008-07-26 15:40|| 2008-07-26 15:40|| Front Page Top

#3 "Blood for No Oil! Blood for No Oil!"

Posted by Perfesser 2008-07-26 17:34|| 2008-07-26 17:34|| Front Page Top

#4 America's first war over oil started on December 7th, 1941. Japan needed oil to support her industrial expansion and had none. Western powers refused to supply her additional oil because of her military adventures in China. Japan figured the best way to secure an adequate supply was to take the Dutch East Indies.

In order to take that oil supply and secure the supply route, Japan needed to knock out the US Pacific Fleet, and so was born the operation at Pearl Harbor. Ironically, Japan would have succeeded if it wasn't for one mistake. Not knowing where our carriers were spooked the Japanese command in charge of the raid so a third wave of bombing that was supposed to take out all the oil storage in Hawaii was called off, in part because of the great success of the earlier waves. They figured we would never be able to recover from the loss of so many ships that they didn't need to destroy the oil storage.

If they had destroyed that storage, all naval operations out of Pearl Harbor would have stopped and the Pacific Fleet would have had to be pulled back to the West Coast of the US. There would have been no battle of Midway and Japan would likely have taken the Hawaiian Islands.

As it was, we were able to send ships to Pearl Harbor and begin repair operations. We did not have tanker capacity to support operations in the far Pacific from the coast of the US, but we could do it from Pearl and it would have taken about 5 years to rebuild oil stocks in Hawaii if that storage had been lost.

World War II against Japan was America's first war over oil, when we were the number one supplier in the world.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-07-26 18:43|| 2008-07-26 18:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Cowards and self-promoting treasonists

You know how it is - to some of these folks, dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Treason is the highest form of dissent. Implying that in their minds, treason is the highest form of patriotism.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-07-26 20:48|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-07-26 20:48|| Front Page Top

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