An oil deal, in Iraq, with no national oil law, during a war....surely you jest!

Iraq + War + Oil + Texas oil company + "W" fundraiser = "war for oil" / (Greenspan comments + JC Watts comments)

Well there's a quaint little equation. Uh oh, it must be one of those conspiracy theories, huh?

Here's a headline from CBS News: "Texas Co. Signs Iraq Oil Deal With Kurds" and directly underneath it: "With No National Iraq Oil Law Passed, Kurdistan Region Makes Its Own Rules."

Hunt Oil Company, from Texas, is hunting for Oil in Iraq's Kurdish region, despite the fact that most "major international companies have sat on the sidelines, not only for security reasons but because of the absence of legislation governing the industry and offering protection for investments."

Oh, and look at this paragraph:

"Hunt, who is also on the board of Halliburton, has been a key fundraiser
for President George W. Bush, who named him to the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board."

But what's been going on with the national oil law in Iraq? Oh, this paragraph explains it:

"A draft oil law for all of Iraq has been bogged down for months, in part
because of disputes over who will control the proceeds."

So what does the central government in Baghdad think of this oil exploration? Let's see:

"In August, however, the Kurdish self-governing region in northern Iraq
enacted its own law governing foreign oil investments. The move angered the
central government in Baghdad, but the Kurds are determined to push ahead with
oil exploration."

Angry? Iraq's central government? Say it ain't so.

Of course, they could all just take another month off work, I suppose.

Look who just jumped in the race for president...

He's back.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
If you've been wanting to return to the theocracy that we never had, you now have a candidate to vote for:

Alan Keyes is running for president.

What? I thought the whole "War for Oil" thing was supposed to be a left-wing talking point?

So you still think that the whole "War for Oil" is some left-wing slogan or just some anti-war rhetoric? You think it's a talking point of moveon.org or alternet?

Well let's see what conservative Republican J.C. Watts thinks. He often appears as the conservative voice on various news shows, and he just happened to be on CNN's "The Situation Room" yesterday, September 17, 2007.

They were discussing former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's new book, in which Greenspan says, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

And what did J.C. Watts have to say about that statement? This:

"Well, and I read today where the chairman was trying to explain himself,
and he said that he said to the White House that this would affect the global
economy because the price of oil obviously would go up, and people at home would
be paying $5, $6 a gallon for fuel, and, Wolf, I think we're kidding ourselves
and naive to think that oil didn't have, didn't play a role in it. I don't think
the President made a decision to say we're going to go fight for oil, but I
think, you know, that was kind of a subtext or kind of something that you had to
factor into it because of what it would do to the world economy."

So can other conservatives finally join with Mr. Watts and admit what Greenspan says "everyone knows"? Please?
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Also, I found the link at NewsBusters.org (click here), a site that claims to be "exposing and combating liberal media bias." What's ironic about them talking about this is that instead of being shocked that these conservatives were basically saying that the Iraq war has been about oil, the headline is "CNN's Begala: Michael Moore & MoveOn 'In the Center,' Bush 'Betrayal'."

They seem more concerned that someone would actually say that Micheal Moore and Moveon.org were in the center, rather than far-left, on this issue, than the fact that conservatives were basically backing up what the "far left" (or "center") has been saying.

If you don't like the facts, just change them. Isn't that right, Mr. President?

FactCheck.org has a new article on Bush's recent speech to the nation, in which he tried to convince us all that the surge was working, and that Iraq was more stable.

Of course, cherry-picking intelligence seems to be the M.O. of the Bush Administration, so the fact that Mr. Bush "played loose with the facts" should come as no surprise.

Click here to read the FactCheck.org article, "Operation Iraqi Gloss-Over."

If you haven't seen this, you should.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be0uIjz68KA

Post-election coverage at the Capital City Free Press

With the election being over, Editor and Publisher Joseph Patton and I combined our post-election coverage into a new rendition of "All over but the shoutin'" - 2007 municipal edition.

Click here for the article.