Could you possibly discuss Bush's War in Iraq for 4 and a ½ hours without ever once mentioning oil?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/etc/script.html


Especially with Bush making statements like this one?

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/31/bush_gives_new_reason_for_iraq_war/

Bush gives new reason for Iraq war

Says US must prevent oil fields from falling into hands of terrorists

By Jennifer Loven, Associated Press | August 31, 2005

CORONADO, Calif. -- President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists.

The president, standing against a backdrop of the USS Ronald Reagan, the newest aircraft carrier in the Navy's fleet, said terrorists would be denied their goal of making Iraq a base from which to recruit followers, train them, and finance attacks.

''We will defeat the terrorists," Bush said. ''We will build a free Iraq that will fight terrorists instead of giving them aid and sanctuary."

Appearing at Naval Air Station North Island to commemorate the anniversary of the Allies' World War II victory over Japan, Bush compared his resolve to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's in the 1940s and said America's mission in Iraq is to turn it into a democratic ally just as the United States did with Japan after its 1945 surrender. Bush's V-J Day ceremony did not fall on the actual anniversary. Japan announced its surrender on Aug. 15, 1945 -- Aug. 14 in the United States because of the time difference.

Democrats said Bush's leadership falls far short of Roosevelt's.

[rwenos]

1. If Bush is like FDR . . .

does that make Cheney like Stalin?
:-)

[sharesunited]

3. Shrub has plenty of surrogates.

Do you need oil mentioned? What about the strategic interests of the United States?

[babylonsister]

2. I taped it and haven't seen it yet. Oil wasn't mentioned? nt

[HuffleClaw]

4. did it NEED to be said?

its self-evident if you ask me

[Old and In the Way]

5. It was an excellent chronology and documentary of the events and the players.

But disappointing in not getting into the underlying motivations/agenda of this administration. I was also disappointed that nothing was made of Cheney's secret energy meetings in early 2001...the ones that we can't know about, except that we have maps showing the oil fields being divvied up.

[B Calm]

6. Who has caused more terror in the world, us or them?