Rangel on CNN

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I tell you, it shocks me how people can be so excited about Saudi Arabia going there playing soccer with the Iraqis as our young men and women are being killed. This whole fiasco is something that in American history we will regret for decades to come.

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SHAYS: But what we also don't want is, we don't want this to be a playground for Iran. Sixty-five percent of the world's energy is in this area. We just can't walk away. We need to leave in a very methodical and sensible way.

RANGEL: You know, this is the most honest thing that's been said. If we are concerned about the oil, if that's the reason we went there, then forget all these weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaida 9/11.

And he said it. That's why we want the defensive military bases there. It's all a question of oil.

SHAYS: It's about energy, Charlie.

RANGEL: Vice President Cheney. What is energy but oil? Come on, Chris.


full transcript
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/29/le.01.html

[rodeodance]

1. oh now Charlie-----it know it was the windmills from the ME that we really wanted!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. .

:rofl:

Glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that.


:hi:

[spanone]

2. K&R

[malaise]

4. I agree with him 100%

Sport is often overrated and further I'm more than suspicious about the final.

[TahitiNut]

5. The right-wing is COVETOUS of Iraq - as though it's THEIRS.

It's really very obvious ... the presumption that they - on the OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD - have some 'right' or 'entitlement' to be in Iraq and plundering it ... while not only Iraqis but neighboring nations in an historically migratory region can't even breathe in its direction. It's really very creepy, imho.