[MNJohnnie]

Guess someone better point out to the Do Nothings that Saddam invaded Kuwait and was headed for Saudi Arabia. THEY may think they can just hide their heads up their butts and ignore the fact that the West’s economic viablity rests on the free flow of Oil from the ME, but the rest of us do not have the luxury of being that stupid.

[Remember_Salamis]

Western "reliance" on Middle Eastern oil is a major fallacy.

First, we import far more oil from non-middle eastern sources than from the middle east.

Second, we import so much oil because we legally cannot extract oil in the US.

Third, if oil was more expensive, extracting oil from shale in the US would be profitable.

[jammer]

Guess someone better point out to the Do Nothings that Saddam invaded Kuwait and was headed for Saudi Arabia.

You can point it out, but it would be wrong. He invaded Kuwait--with our ambassador's (April Glasbie) imprimatur--because it was a rich province that had formerly been part of Iraq.

Even if he had gone on to Saudi Arabia, so what? The oil would have still flowed. And perhaps he would have killed OBL or some of those 19 Saudi people who hijacked the airplanes.