[Gondring]

If he was REALLY serious, he would declare our oil to be a matter of Strategic National Security and open drilling by presidential order.

You won't like that precedent so much when Barry Obama declares it a matter of Strategic International Security to cap carbon emissions by presidential order.

[bill1952]

Carbon emissions do not fall under that treaty or our laws.
Oil does, and Bush can do it.

The hussein will do whatever he pleases irrespective of what Bush does or does not do.
They are not causally linked.