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I want Iraq to start writing us checks now. By my count, they have nearly a trillion dollars they owe us.
You would think that this is an issue where liberals and conservatives could come together as one, but I guess we still need to wait for conservatives to grow something more than a brain stem for that to happen.
Making the world safe for Democracy?
I'm with "blueoysterjoe" - "Dude, you are so right in content and in tone."
Its just outrageous.
what goes around comes around... they learned at the foot of their masters. capitalist pig oil companies. where's halliburton's HQ now? uh-huh.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Just like the Russians snickering at Strobe while learning from enterprising American lawyers and bureaucrats bent on Czarist jewlery traded for a few dollar bills.
We steal because we love...
Sorry if you planned your future on inflated prices, oil ministry, looks like the crashing economy isn't going to cooperate.
I work in advocacy for transportation alternatives and you can just feel support for those alternatives evaporate as the price of gas floats down to $2/gallon.
OTOH, we don't really need all those dollars flowing out to oil producing countries . . . how about a nice fuel tax or (even better) carbon tax.
Because of market pressures, a fuel tax ends up being paid about half by industry and half by consumers. (IE if you added a $1/gal gas tax, the price of gas would raise by about $.50/gal. So $.50/gal paid by the consumer & the rest eaten by the industry.)
So there you have it--those nasty oil producing countries paying half our taxes for us.
I can't figure out why this isn't the most popular tax in the books, rather than the least popular . . .
never forget that.
He said he would "jaw-bone" if this were to happen.
Really, "jaw-bone".
/snark
-- George W. Bush
FOX NEWS got out WAY AHEAD of a story that MSNBC is now reporting that a REPUBLICAN WINGNUT POLL WORKER from COLLEGE STATION, TX reported being assaulted by a big black man who beat her up after seeing her "McCain / Palin" bumper sticker. Another desperate Republican trying to swing the election with the help of FOX NEWS! Police have discovered the entire thing was made up and the wingnut injured herself and scrawled the "B" backwards on her face using a mirror. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! FOX NEWS has reported this over and over without bothering to check the facts, of course. One more example of how crazy and stupid Republicans are.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008...
Let other countries and regions depend on their own forms of energy but the US will lead in teaching the world about clean energy. We'll become once again a moral compass for preserving our only home, earth, or suffer the consequences of our actions.
....but I couldn't have said it better myself.
If the price increases, we should immediately drop any contributions to the Iraqi government by the exact amount the increase costs US consumers.
If oil were the U.S.'s only natural resource - as it is the only significant natural resource of the OPEC countries - we'd be charging $250 bucks a barrel and saying take it or leave it to anyone who didn't like it.
And Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and Iraq don't owe us anything for what we did in two Gulf Wars, because we didn't do it for them. We did it for us. Because we perceived our national interest lay in preventing Saddam's domination of Gulf oil, and thought the best way to do that was to prop up intolerant unconstitutional monarchies in the Gulf states.
We act in our own narrow interests in the Middle East, regardless of what anyone else says, and then we want people to do us favors because we swear we did it for them all along? BS.
DEFLATION
I'm not saying I'm a fan of high gas prices, but if oil prices continue to drop, along with everything else, there will be even more layoffs since companies will slow down production, thus needing less workers.
They never asked us to spent a dime on them.
We bought it, we broke it.
We invaded that country without cause. We were the direct or indirect cause of millions of deaths, and billions in damage. To expect gratitutde or assistance with our problems is beyond an outrage. We owe them reparations and assistance, not the other way around.
On this you are flat and unequivocally wrong.
At the least the writer should study up a bit to find out that we destroyed their country illegally and without cause!
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