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Originally posted by jerico65
reply to post by mind is the universe
You complain because he said something, and if he didn't make any press releases whatsoever, you'd complain about that, too.
Originally posted by earthman4
Bush's only job for 8 years was to get cheap oil. He might say that this was in the interest of national security. That is like a bank robber saying that he robbed the bank for personal security. He has no time to talk to us as he is building an earth escape pod. He will have to escape earth to survive.
Originally posted by mind is the universe
Complain about who and what was I complaing in relation too?
Don't make accusations of me "complaining" in a future that didn't happen yet. God you need to get a life, if you worry about what I might say or do in the future in this regard.
But I say this as in future reference.
Stick to the topic
We do not exaggerate. Nor do we exaggerate when we say: Saddam Hussein will fail. Vital economic interests are at risk as well. Iraq itself controls some 10 percent of the world's proven oil reserves. Iraq plus Kuwait controls twice that. An Iraq permitted to swallow Kuwait would have the economic and military power, as well as the arrogance, to intimidate and coerce its neighbors—neighbors who control the lion's share of the world's remaining oil reserves. We cannot permit a resource so vital to be dominated by one so ruthless. And we won't.
Long after all our troops come home, and we all hope it's soon, very soon, there will be a lasting role for the United States in assisting the nations of the Persian Gulf. Our role then is to deter future aggression. Our role is to help our friends in their own self-defense. And something else: to curb the proliferation of chemical, biological, ballistic missile and, above all, nuclear technologies.