He really is a straightshooter
Energy issues - - Posted on May, 4 at 8:52 am by Ken L
No matter how carefully they craft their official rhetoric, politicians occasionally reveal their true ideas in off-the-cuff exchanges. John McCain just had one of those moments, suggesting that the attack on Iraq and subsequent occupation was, ummmm, about the oil. Gosh, could those crazy lefties have been right after all?
“My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will — that will then prevent us — that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East,” McCain said.
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May 4th, 2008 at 11:16 am
No, the crazy lefties are never right. Only the sensible right can say such things and be correct. There’s no logic involved here.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I love the pause/stumble in the middle. Do you think it occurred to him that he was saying aloud something he shouldn’t? Oh well, push on. Deny it later.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
“eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East” … remind me, wasn’t Dubya going to eliminate America’s dependence on imported oil?
As for ” will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East”, surely what we are talking here couldn’t be an outbreak of common sense, could it?
May 4th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
BAM!
There’s a new sheriff in town… Like the current knucklehead in Oval Office, he doesn’t “do nuance” either.
McCain reckons United States should kick Russia out of the G8. AND get medieval on China’s arse.
Epic stuff. Seriously.
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/04/29/for-mccain-the-devil-is-in-the-details.aspx
May 4th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
BAM!
There’s a new sheriff in town… Like the current knucklehead in Oval Office, he doesn’t “do nuance” either.
McCain reckons United States should kick Russia out of the G8. AND get medieval on China’s arse.
Epic stuff. Seriously.
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/04/29/for-mccain-the-devil-is-in-the-details.aspx
May 4th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Paul Wolfowitz: “The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason, but… there have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is the criminal treatment of the Iraqi people… The third one by itself, as I think I said earlier, is a reason to help the Iraqis but it’s not a reason to put American kids’ lives at risk, certainly not on the scale we did it.”
Why did they do it????
I’ve mentioned it a couple of times before, but here I go again. Sorry.
Please be careful not to be drawn into a simplistic explanation of the inevitable US aggression.
What happened was the meeting of many groups with their own reasons and agendas. The imperialists, the christian bible thumpers, the bed-wetters, the Iraqi exiles, the oil lobby, the Fundamentalist Capitalists, the WMD hysterics, the political opportunists (American and other), the militarists, and goodness knows who else ALL saw a chance to push their self-serving causes. They all “settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on” and the MSM took it from there.
May 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
But it becomes so enervating after a while. The only response to behaviour they don’t like is unbridled aggression. The only response. Threats! Sanctions! Send a carrier battle group! Refuse to talk to them unless they do obeisance!
No wonder so many yanks demand the right to walk around armed to the teeth. When Bush did his ‘with us or against us’ chest-beating he wasn’t expressing a new concept in foreign policy, he was simply restating longstanding US attitudes.
It’s like the whole human condition can be reduced to the moral framework of a John Wayne movie.
May 4th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Yes it really sucks! SERIOUSLY!
Violence and duplicity wins out. Again.
The use of “the noble lie” by the Straussians, zealots, greed-heads and common thugs to bewitch the public. All made simple by the enablers in the MSM.
I have to admit there’s a certain attraction to bypassing the disengaged/distracted masses when it comes to important matters. But would that be the RIGHT thing to do?
May 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
“It’s like the whole human condition can be reduced to the moral framework of a John Wayne movie.”
You mean the whole American mentality ISN’T a John Wayne movie?
May 4th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
John Wayne was a softie!
It’s GOT to be Steven Segal or Bruce Willis.
Yippykia Mother F#?kers
And how could I forget our dear friends, the chickenhawks?
May 5th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Many of us suspected that the war in Iraq was about oil. That admission from John McCain is absolute gold!
He has moments of honesty but he is seriously all over the place. He says one thing one day, then the complete opposite the next. Well… except for the need to have war, war and more war.
First it was the terrorists now it’s oil. Do the terrorists have the oil I wonder?
May 6th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
“He has moments of honesty but he is seriously all over the place. He says one thing one day, then the complete opposite the next. ”
Do you think he’s related to our Brendan?