[Luis Gonzalez]

If this truly was about oil, we would have been running the oil fields in Kuwait since Desert Storm.

Actually, in a way it is about oil, but it's about French and German contracts for Saddam's oil. We're trying to take out a world-class menace, and the French and Germans are trying to protect their investments.

[ggekko]

Great article.

If we wanted to gain Oil by conquest we could probably take over Venezuela in a couple of days.

Like most left-wing slogans they collapse into absurdity when subjected to any kind of serious analysis. This is why liberals fail at talk radio. They trot out slogans that are then promptly shot down by the listeners.