-=> GEORGE POPE wrote to ED HULETT <=-

 GP> On (29 Oct 06) Ed Hulett wrote to George Pope...
 EH>  WC>> What are we still doing in Iraq.
 EH>
 EH>  GP> Protecting/securing "American oil interests"!
 EH>
 EH> Since we get the majority of our foreign oil from Venezuela, how
 EH> exactly are we "protecting/securing our oil interests in Iraq?

 GP> You might have noted mine was a quote ("American oil
interests") and
 GP> rather asked who said such. . .

 GP> Obviously you've forgotten that it was your Congress who used that term
 GP> WRT being in Iraq!

Ed of course is once again wrong here.

Even during the tough economic sanctions designed to contain Saddam Hussein's
Iraq
the U.S. was getting 37 percent of its domestic oil needs from Iraq though it 
was purchased from foreign vendors and not American oil companies.

Of course with Republicans it sound bite over substance.


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