By Tony Moschetti
I'm having a difficult time understanding the left's mindless obsession that the Iraq conflict is over oil. Therefore, to try to better understand these folks, I've decided to have half my brain removed.
Greg Meyerson, who calls Sharon a war criminal but thinks Arafat is a mainstream leader, is the latest to push the oil lunacy. This crowd said the same thing about the 1991 conflict with Iraq. We were in Kuwait, and Iraq. We had little opposition. Why did we not appropriate the oil fields then if oil is our motive? We have been in Saudi Arabia for decades. Why have we not taken those oil fields?
If our goal is take over the Middle East oil, why do we continue to let ourselves be held hostage by these folks as they manipulate the cost of oil by manipulating production? Why haven't we simply taken the oil fields? Why do we sit by as our economy suffers whenever the Middle East cartel decides to put the squeeze on us? Why don't we just take the oil fields? This is not a trick question. Send your answers to the News & Record.
Meyerson should have sent his letter to Le Monde. It is the French who are profiting from Iraqi oil. They have made billions thus far, and hoped to make even more in the future. If you follow the news, you know that is why the French tried so hard to stop this action. They also know that we will, as we said, make certain it is the people of Iraq who benefit from their oil. Their claims that we will profit are laughable.
They have been wrong about everything beginning with the 1991 conflict. There was the "quagmire" in Afghanistan, the house to house fighting in Baghdad costing thousands of American casualties, the poorly thought out war plan, etc.
They cannot deal with the success of the Bush administration. They are livid at his poll numbers, and the trust he engenders with 70 to 80 percent of Americans.
I'm still waiting for a member of the "no blood for oil" or "it's all about oil" crowd to tell us they have decided to permanently boycott all oil products.
No SUV, no plastic, no polyester slacks, no oil heat, etc.
The left and hypocrisy is a marriage made in heaven.
The writer lives in High Point.
News & Record
April 30, 2003
