cause-an-itch is like a tapeworm, crossed with a buglight.
Ping! Here you are, fellow Freeper. :-)
After all the blood spilled by our brave military, and the treasure expended by our taxpayers, I sure hope to hell we are going to get Iraq’s oil. Who would Kucinich prefer to see get it? Iran? Russia? China?
God save us from these idiots.
It is amazing people this ignorant and inflammatory can get elected to anything.
I sincerely apologize for this absolute moroon being on the national stage. He a flunky from a district here in Cleveland where he changed his pro-life view as soon as he became a “contender” for president four years ago. He was a pain in the a$$ in college, spending most of the time tying up classes with insane questioning and formally contesting every grade he got less than an “A”. An absolutely worthless human being that brought the city of Cleveland to its knees. The stupid a$$ even put a hamburger flipper at McDonalds as the safety director while in office. How he gets reelected every 2 years is beyond me. He has no skills, no trade, and now he’s making a fool of his constituents.
Give us oil...at $65 a bbl
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER!
If we were going to steal oil, wouldn’t we start with Canada’s? Its closer, there are only a few highway patrolmen to slow us down.
I mean, really.
Mexico is pretty close, they effectively have no army. That would be a good bet. Venezuela, its pretty close and again, no army to speak of. I would say, when we have stolen their oil, the other countries should start worrying. Until then, they can probably rest easily.
Why didn't we seize Iraq's oil 16 years ago when we had 500000 troops available during the Gulf War?
Kucinich: Blood Money
United States Capitol Building at Night
Washington, May 22 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech on the floor of the House of Representatives today:
“The Associated Press reports that the latest Iraq Supplemental funding plan, incredibly, will tie an increase in the minimum wage to funding the war through October.
“If this is true, and I hope it is not, it tells American workers that the only way they will get an increase in wages is to continue to support funding the war which is taking the lives of their sons and daughters.
“First blood for oil. Now a minimum wage for maximum blood. Aren’t the American people giving enough blood for this war without having to give more to have a wage increase?
“What’s happened to our country? We are losing our moral compass. We’re losing our sense of justice. We’re losing touch with the difference between right and wrong.
“We do not have to fund this war. We must leave Iraq now. Support our troops and bring them home. HR 1234 is a plan to end the war and stabilize Iraq and give Iraqis control of their oil.
“We must take a new path. We must take a path of truth and justice.”
Dennis, Dennis, Dennis. What a gigantic, festering dingleberry.
If it was oil we were after, we should have invaded Mexico, or Venezuela. But noooo, that’s too logical for a MOONBAT.
It must be tough to be a dain-bramaged midget...
Because when you buy oil from someone, that transaction "lines your pocket". Right?
But elements of Kucinich's claim appear to be based on theories about geopolitics and oil as much as on any conspiracy.
Wait, what?
So instead of being based on a conspiracy theory, Kucinich's claim is based on "theories about geopolitics and oil"? (As opposed to being based on a conspiracy theory?) Because those two things (1. conspiracy theory, and 2. a theory about geopolitics and oil) are somehow contradictory and mutually exclusive?
Something tells me this journalist isn't exactly a MENSA candidate.
While that does not mean companies would give their resources and expertise out of charity, Karen Matusic, a spokeswoman for the American Petroleum Institute, says it does not mean privatization, either. She asks why Kucinich would not want to help Iraq, which lacks the tools.
Good question.
Oh, but of course, the answer is, "because that would be lining our pockets". Therefore we should not help Iraq (=some Western companies sign contracts with Iraq to build up the oil infrastructure), but rather, let its oil infrastructure remain in shambles. That's better.
Thank goodness there are brave voices like Kucinich to stand up for the little guy in Iraq.
"It's clear," he said, "that the people of Iraq are under enormous pressure to give up their oil."
Um, what?
You mean, by selling it to other people for money? Yeah, they are under enormous pressure - it's called a market incentive. (Oil is a valuable commodity, and the Iraqis could exchange a lot of it for a lot of money, if they get their act together.)
This would be bad for Iraqis? To "give up" their oil (by exchanging it for money)?
Kucinich really isn't that bright, is he?
Someone was telling me about a comedian who said that when the war started he thought how we were just getting into it for the oil and how terrible that was, but now he'd just settle for the oil.
...and since you won't let us drill for our own oil, Kuckoo-Kucinich, we have to get it from somewhere.
Well, then, Dennis, you idiot, let us exploit our domestic oil sources and we don’t need to be in Iraq, you twisted little pipsqueak.
I have to laugh every time I hear this.
It is such a stupid statement, and they think repeating it will make it believeable.
pssssst...
Mexico and Venezuela are a lot closer.
And weaker.
And a lot cheaper to fight and hold.
Again? This red herring?
Kucinich: "The sky is purple!"
BtD: "Uh, Dennis, it's lookin' kind of blue today."
Kucinich: "Sooo...they've gotten to you too, hmm?"
Just when you get tired of hearing the magic negro, the witch, and the silky pony, here comes Kook, making them all look a bit saner...