(Rep. Ralph) Hall: Bush has planned exit strategy ("a war for energy")

[sabra]

http://web.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=24524

Hall: Bush has planned exit strategy

The senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives says President George W. Bush has an exit strategy for Iraq, regardless of some charges to the contrary.

“Once we set up a friend as the head of Iraq, the new Iraqi president is going to ask the American military to withdraw,” U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Rockwall, said Friday in a telephone interview from his home.

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While Bush insists the War in Iraq is a part of the War on Terror as well as a war to establish Iraqi freedom, Hall terms it “a war for energy,” a strategy Bush downplays.

“The War on Terror involves keeping the bad guy from having his foot on half the oil reserves in that most populated area,” Hall said. “For that reason I think you could glean that this is a war for energy.”

:nuke:

[madmark]

1. Two Thoughts: 1) Ridiculous strategy 2) This Rep is candid about

the ridiculous strategy.

[sabra]

2. this is from some one who knows BushCo well...

seems pretty telling.

[IChing]

3. “Once we set up a friend as the head of Iraq"

Wow, Do I really need to comment on that quote?

[hippiechick]

10. .

:wow: He actually said that outloud???

[JerseygirlCT]

24. I guess their elections are supposed to work like ours did. nt

[Roland99]

26. Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick!

Wow.


He actually said that out loud??



:wow:

[endarkenment]

4. “Once we set up a friend as the head of Iraq"

Uh, I thought they were electing their own leaders. WTF is this dolt muttering about? On the other hand they MIGHT ask us to leave, although I rather doubt that we would and I rather doubt that the shiites see any reason to stop having us kill suniis for them.

[Mithras61]

5. Gotta love their editorial candor...

Hall said he expects the Iraqi people to elect a Shitte who is friendly to the United States in upcoming presidential elections.

What sect exactly is a Shitte? Could it be a typo (after all, we know that they're expected to elect US collaborators, maybe he really did mean a "shit")? :hippie:


On a more serious note, this toad is admitting what we've been charging since before the invasion... this is a war for Iraqi OIL not for any of the other BS reasons that we've been handed. He better watch out, or he'll be asked to "spend more time with his family" (if he's lucky).

[Democrats_win]

6. Republicans said is wasn´t about oil. When will the lies stop?!!!

[gratuitous]

16. I remember when we said it WAS about oil

All sorts of people came out to scream about how traitorous we were when we said "No blood for oil." Out of all the objections that folks had to the then-proposed invasion of Iraq, the Oregonian newspaper seized on that one objection, and derided tens of thousands of people marching in the streets of Portland as "naive." The Oregonian is singing a slightly different tune nowadays, but they have yet to face up to their own misstatements, misjudgments and just plain stinky reporting from that time.

[FiveGoodMen]

21. When their lips stop moving -- and not a moment sooner!

[VegasWolf]

7. Of course, this is the obvious Bush strategy. It will never work. Iraq

will become a theocracy aligned with Iran and sell its oil to China who can and will pay more for it. This is just another Bush/Cheney wet dream.

[formercia]

8. If people would just quit buying cheap Chinese made goods

they wouldn't need all of that oil to make them..........

[VegasWolf]

9. Unfortunately it doesn't matter. China is the number 1 economy in

the world and the 21st Century will belong to China. The first people on Mars will undoubtably be Chineese.

[formercia]

23. let me repeat

If people quit buying cheap Chinese goods, they won't be number 1.

[HuffleClaw]

11. nice to see someone telling the truth about this for a change

and a republican to boot! kudos to him.

[sabra]

12. When will the smearing begin over @ FR ?

[nashville_brook]

15. the editor of our local weeky endorsed a war for oil regardless of WMDs

back in 2002 when people were 'debating' the war. sigh. people don't even see this as worse. meme change ahead.

[hadrons]

13. glad this guy isn't a Democrat anymore ....

not like he ever really was one

[last_texas_dem]

14. Funny

The wingnuts would be screaming like crazy claiming Hall had made treasonous statements with that "war for energy" comment if he weren't one of theirs. Much of his statements were typical Repug garbage, but I was actually surprised at a couple of them; even when he was a Dem he voted like a right-wing Republican so the statements surprised me a bit.

[NashVegas]

17. Funnier

Hall seems to think there's enough petrol in ANWAR and curses the Democrats for keeping us from it. When are he and other Repukes going to thwap Jebbie for cowering from Floridians for the same?

[daleo]

18. Refreshingly honest

Cynical, but honest.

[yellowcanine]

19. "friend as head of Iraq" = sock puppet with Cheney's hand in the sock.

[Rex]

20. Democracy is based on setting up friends in other gummits?

What politico-moran school pumps these Bush people out? Someone take away their license to practice education ASAP!

[stepnw1f]

22. Installing Puppet Leaders Around the World

protects our Freedoms? Isn't this why we have extremists pissed at us in the first place?

[LynnTheDem]

25. “Once we set up a friend as the head of Iraq..."

Britain tried that very thing with their first invasion & occupation of Iraq...didn't work well for the Brits.

[LynnTheDem]

27. At least he admits US soldiers are DEAD FOR OIL.

Rot in hell you fucking bushit bastards.