Rep. David Davis: "Can you imagine Iran and al-Qaida having an oil well that can produce 20 million"

[sabra]

http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9002185

After personally observing ground conditions in Iraq over the weekend, U.S. Rep. David Davis continued Tuesday to back the Bush administration's position to reject congressional intervention and allow military commander Gen. David Petraeus to reassess progress in September.

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"He said ‘There's a 5-year-old laying in some bed in America, and that if we don't finish this job now, he will be over here fighting again in the future,'" Davis said of the conversation. "There's going to be a vacuum. We're either going to be there helping Iraqis get back on their feet, or we're not going to be there and Iran and al-Qaida will have the opportunity to come in. Iraq has the second-biggest oil reserve in the world. Can you imagine Iran and al-Qaida having an oil well that can produce 20 million dollars a day against us? The threat is too great for us not to win. ... One of the generals told me that one of al-Qaida's goals is to have world domination starting in the Middle East. The people of the Middle East understand that."

Davis said House Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, continue to push measures calling for no permanent military bases in Iraq and to limit what America can do about Iraqi oil.

"I don't think we ought to tie our hands down," Davis said. "What are we going to drive our cars on? People are already frustrated with three-dollars-a-gallon gas. What are they going to do when it goes to six dollars a gallon because of bad Washington policy?"

:wow:

[cynatnite]

1. Shit, that's my congressman

*sigh*

This is the man who believes that we should drill every single drop of oil out of the planet. That's his energy policy.

I need to think of a good response when I email him about this.

[Skip Intro]

2. I don't know, rep repuke, how many bodies a gallon will your ride get?

frickin' moron

[Mojorabbit]

3. There it is n/t

[sabra]

6. at least he's honest

:eyes:

[Individualist]

4. Davis is a fundie nutcase!

[Posteritatis]

5. Isn't $20M/day chump change for oil?

That wouldn't matter much with Iran, and al-Qaeda'd have a hell of a time moving that much to market anyway. They might as well ask what'd happen if Don Corleone hax0red some college student's savings account one day.

[Hydra]

7. ya, that number is WAY low

That's only 7.3 billion per year, assuming 365 with no interuptions.

I heard something far more scary- total reserves there were approximately worth 4 trillion before the war started. Now they are worth more like 15 trillion, and that number is only going to rise.

Feh, and people wonder how the admin could have sacrificed the ~3,300 people in NY either LIHOP or MIHOP and the continuing number of troops in Iraq. To them, it was just good business.

[piedmont]

8. I didn't realize God makes 'em that stupid and evil.

There's just so much wrong with that, on so many levels...:banghead:

[cynatnite]

9. Only gawd makes them that stupid n/t

[Richard Steele]

10. What utter wank. nm