Thats why the Iraq-for-oil argument has not convinced me.
Seriously folks, if the US govt. knew that our oil supply was in danger, we would have been scrambling to drill in as many places as possible [the dems would concede ANWR for national security reasons] and/or strike deals with other countries, etc. Hitlery and John Kerry were just has hawkish about Iraq as Bush was, in 2003.
The US oil supply will never be in danger - oil is a fungible commodity and any shortage can be made up just by paying more. The real threat is not national but global.
That threat cannot be significantly alleviated by increasing US oil supplies, these will be just a drop in the bucket in global terms. We cannot sit fat and happy while Europe, Japan, China, India, etc. crash. The last time this happened we got fascist governments around the world and a world war.
Sorry, you really do not understand the mindset of the dems. They think they would get more power out of troubles in the U.S. than out of problems outside the U.S.
When the citizens are crying for heat in the winter and gas for the cars to get around. The dems win in so many ways.
They get the power to control every thing and do it while implementing their version of liberal heaven on earth.