Thanks to three Democrat American senators, China will be pumping Iraqi oil

Thanks to three Democrat American senators, China will be pumping Iraqi oil Read it and weep. No Oil for Blood by Frederick W. Kagan. We have been thoughly infiltrated and route. If Obama snatches the White House ........... it's over. Over at the Weekly Standard (hat tip ejo)

One would have thought that leading Democratic senators who claim to be interested in finding other sources of funding to replace American dollars in Iraq, in helping Iraq spend its own money on its own people, and in lowering the price of gasoline for American citizens, would have been all for it. Instead, Senators Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, and Claire McCaskill wrote a letter to Secretary of State Rice asking her "to persuade the GOI [Government of Iraq] to refrain from signing contracts with multinational oil companies until a hydrocarbon law is in effect in Iraq." The Bush administration wisely refused to do so, but the resulting media hooraw in Iraq led to the cancellation of the contracts, and helps to explain why Iraq is doing oil deals instead with China.

Senators Schumer, McCaskill, and Kerry claimed to be acting from the purest of motives: "It is our fear that this action by the Iraqi government could further deepen political tensions in Iraq and put our service members in even great danger." For that reason, presumably, Schumer went so far as to ask the senior vice president of Exxon "if his company would agree to wait until the GOI produced a fair, equitable, and transparent hydrocarbon revenue sharing law before it signed any long-term agreement with the GOI." Exxon naturally refused, but Schumer managed to get the deal killed anyway. But the ostensible premise of the senators' objections was false--Iraq may not have a hydrocarbons law, but the central government has been sharing oil revenues equitably and there is no reason at all to imagine that signing the deals would have generated increased violence (and this was certainly not the view of American civilian and military officials on the ground in Iraq at the time). It is certain that killing the deals has delayed the maturation of Iraq's oil industry without producing the desired hydrocarbons legislation.

Nor is it entirely clear what the senators' motivations were. Their release (available along with their letter to Secretary Rice at the New York Observer quoted Senator McCaskill as follows: "'It's bad enough that we have no-bid contracts being awarded for work in Iraq. It's bad enough that the big oil companies continue to receive government handouts while they post record breaking profits. But now the most profitable companies in the universe--America's biggest oil companies--stand to reap the rewards of this no-bid contract on top of it all,' McCaskill said. 'It doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect these dots--big oil is running Washington and now they're running Baghdad. There is no reason under the sun not to halt these agreements until we get revenue sharing in place,' McCaskill said." So was this about what's best for Iraq and American interests there or about nailing "big oil" in an election year?

Either way, like Barack Obama's asking the Iraqi foreign minister to hold off on a strategic framework agreement until after the American election, it was nothing but harmful to American interests and our prospects in Iraq.

The Democrats continue to crap on this great nation. We as a nation, and as Conservatives, will only survive if we have the long vision goal of transforming our schools away from liberal indoctrination. With national polls showing 48% support for Obama the Marxist, we are in grave danger of losing this country and if we do not act upon transforming the public school system, we are going lose Lady Liberty.

If McCain/Palin win, we need to push them for educational reform. Vouchers, homeschooling, anything besides the liberal bastions of hell called public schools.

What the Nation needs is a good Congress of fine sense.

.. and this could be the year!

[Only] Fifty-seven percent of registered voters say the U.S. representative from their own congressional district deserves to be re-elected. That, too, is on the low end of what Gallup has measured historically for one's own member, slightly higher than the 1994 (54%) and 2006 (54%) readings, and somewhat better still than the all-time low of 48% in 1992.

(In 1992 was the House bank scandal, pay raises for Congress, and the Keating Five. I don't remember the outcome except the House did not change hands but I believe there were a large number of retirements.)

Whatever it takes let's help the National Capitol relieve itself and clear the bowels of Congress!

One unspoken motive for letting China in ahead of any US bids, is that the US military is now the foreign legion of mercenaries for the Chinese hegemony, bound by so many economic ties that it would be difficult at best to try to shake them off. You see, they now have us in such a degree of bondage, that we jump at their bidding, to assure access to oil shall be kept open to ALL consumers in the world, and not just locked up for access to whom the cartel might want to reward or deny for one purpose or another. This way, it is the American war, not the Chinese war, and the Chinese may continue to operate below the radar. If the Americans were not there, the Chinese would have to go in and clear their own access to petroleum production, and eventually, take it over themselves by occupation and maintaining extended military logistics, and why do that when you can get the Americans to do it for you?

The Chinese have a sufficiently tight stranglehold on our entire economy, that they could cause vast disruption easily any time they wanted. Think this recent market panic and scramble to restore liquidity was anything less than a perhaps two-pronged approach by different players to gain the attention of the American public? On the one hand, we had the MoveOn.org crowd, exemplified by one George Soros, who has been manipulating the trading of specific commodities, particularly crude oil, in recent weeks, then we have one of the biggest foreign holders of US securities, who may be working at cross purposes with George Soros. It is a struggle that has popped out into the open, and the Chinese are not graceful losers in any negotiations. In fact, one would be inclined to say the Chinese do not intend to lose.

The US is just a piece on a vast chess board, and not even able to direct movement of much of anything. All we can do is trade our current strategic position and influence for a possibly better control of the board down the road. Or see it get traded away for us, by some inept and unready new Administration. And all with the acquiescence of the US Congress, which cannot or will not see the dangers.

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