Terri
03-11-2003, 12:30 AM
You're Darn Right It's About Oil
Kerri Houston
GOPUSA
March 11, 2003
Anti-war demonstrators -- who seem to have been cryogenically frozen since the 1970s -- have been hitting the street in full force, complete with signage and united by the anti-national security rallying cry "No Blood for Oil."
Anyone in America with any sense would tell you that the possible war in Iraq is not about oil, but has to do with protecting Americans at home and abroad, presenting a clear and resolute foreign policy, and protecting Saddam Hussein's neighbors and his own people from attack by his nasty weapons of mass destruction.
But they would be wrong.
It is about oil -- the oil that pumps out of Iraq's oil wells and into Saddam's pockets in the amount of $20B plus per year. It is this estimated $20 -- 25B that allows him to develop and hide his arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and advance his plans for first-strike nuclear capabilities.
A myriad of cliches come to mind -- letting the fox into the henhouse, giving the inmates keys to the asylum -- but none can adequately illustrate the magnitude of deadly power that comes to Saddam with every drip-drip-drip of drilled Iraqi oil.
Full Article (http://www.gopusa.com/kerrihouston/kh_0310.shtml)
Kerri Houston
GOPUSA
March 11, 2003
Anti-war demonstrators -- who seem to have been cryogenically frozen since the 1970s -- have been hitting the street in full force, complete with signage and united by the anti-national security rallying cry "No Blood for Oil."
Anyone in America with any sense would tell you that the possible war in Iraq is not about oil, but has to do with protecting Americans at home and abroad, presenting a clear and resolute foreign policy, and protecting Saddam Hussein's neighbors and his own people from attack by his nasty weapons of mass destruction.
But they would be wrong.
It is about oil -- the oil that pumps out of Iraq's oil wells and into Saddam's pockets in the amount of $20B plus per year. It is this estimated $20 -- 25B that allows him to develop and hide his arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and advance his plans for first-strike nuclear capabilities.
A myriad of cliches come to mind -- letting the fox into the henhouse, giving the inmates keys to the asylum -- but none can adequately illustrate the magnitude of deadly power that comes to Saddam with every drip-drip-drip of drilled Iraqi oil.
Full Article (http://www.gopusa.com/kerrihouston/kh_0310.shtml)