Posted on 06/12/2006 8:21:45 PM PDT by Libloather
Dour looks on their faces.
Bush is wrong on that one. Oil is a disuniting factor in Iraq. The Sunni dominated areas don't have any, and it fuels their angst. Just another PR soundbite, which misses the mark.
WRONG! I am sick of hearing this crap. Repeat the lie often enough...blah blah blah
Iraq is hurting Bush in the polls, although not the only reason. Whether it will have a real impact though in Congressional races is another matter. There the focus will be more on going forward, rather than grading someone for the past. But as time passes, Bush's grade is more and more about the past, and less and less about the future.
That doesn't mean they can't share in the proceeds from the oil.
I'm pretty sure the point is that Iraq has oil to sell, and those proceeds would then benefit the entire country.
True as a theoretical matter, but Sunni's don't have much investment in those other folks will share belief. The place is not like Germany, where big bucks went into that toxic waste dump formerly known as the Socialist Democratic Republic of Germany, aka East Germany. The folks just don't relate too well to each other.
Cheney looks like he is about 80 years old.
True. They have tough jobs.
Misleading headline. Has to be done purposely.
"Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, in a speech in Washington, called the war in Iraq an "intractable conflict" and said Americans deserve a plan from the president that provides troops with an exit strategy. "It is no longer sufficient to say 'we will stand down as the Iraqis stand up,'" Reid said, quoting a Bush refrain."
It would be far more honest for Reid to admit that the Democrats' Great Society is a quagmire with little in the way of results to show for 7 trillion or so dollars. Americans deserve a plan from the Senate that provides the citizenry with an end to this foolishness. All the Great Society has done is to take honest wage-earners and pair them with vermin on the left and send them all down the same sewer.
"Cheney looks like he is about 80 years old."
And your point is...
I read through the piece twice - the only reference to oil I found is : Bush and his advisers addressed violence in Iraq, especially in Baghdad and Basra, as well as the Iraqi economy and oil.
And it does not say "oil is key" and was not connected to Iran............
This is the second blatantly erroneous and deliberately misleading headline tonight.
They know that many people skim the headlines and take that as gospel.
OR - did I miss where Bush said, in reference to Iran "oil is key"?
That he looks 80 years old.
"suggesting the nation's vast supply of oil could be a way of reuniting the country."
As I posted, I think the reverse is probably true.
Rather that be honest and report this - Yahoo news refers to the poll figures of almost 2 weeks ago.
It's deliberately deceptive - but most people will swallow it without a second thought...even in here ;o(
I suppose if his numbers were to climb into the stratosphere, rather than mention it, they will continue to report - "two-four-nine months ago, Bush's approval rating was 30%"
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