What is the reasoning behind this stupidity? Or is there any?.............
Simple, they don’t want us to have more oil and they don’t want the Iraqis to be able to produce their own oil. They want a failed state in Iraq and the US because that is their only way to get elected.
I went ahead and read the 42 posts that had accumulated in commentary by the time I arrived at this thread.
My thoughts are BDS as being the answer.
The BDS goes back to the 2000 election me thinks. Back to the fact the Dems hold a HUGE grudge for Bush as all their cheating, ie; dead people, dogs, cats, disallowing military votes, chads, finally the SCOTUS, etc. failed to get their moron Al Gore elected. This is why they HATE BUSH so damned much they still cry about his “Selection, not Election”. The Presidency in their minds was to never, ever have been returned to the Republicans. They don’t care a whit about anything but the power to Socialize this Nation no matter what the people of this Nation desire.
IIRC Part of the “deal” in the beginning was about Iraqi oil revenues compensating our efforts should we launch an assault on Hussein, thus approval for the war included the Democrats.
Now that the war is in the category of VICTORY after all the talking down of the war in Iraq specifically by all the Democrats, they HATE BUSH EVEN MORE. To allow the Iraqi oil to be awarded without bid to Western oil interests (1 American) further puts salt in their BDS wounds.
Bush would not only get credit for the Victory, but also the original pact including compensation by Iraqi oil.
The Iraqi oil IMO won’t lessen our pump price in the near future, but will compensate somewhat our expenditures in this war.
I’m certain there are other opinions out there, but I think the childish Democrats are throwing a snit-fit because every Wile E. Coyote stunt they have pulled has ended with similar Wile E. Coyote results. Quite like Pinky and The Brain if you will.