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ANWR, Florida, California, etc. are politically protected from oil drilling,

Pretty much my point.

Yet you asert that the war isn't political?

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ANWR, Florida, California, etc. are politically protected from oil drilling, Pretty much my point. Yet you asert that the war isn't political?

Any war can (and will) be used by political parties for advantage. We did not station troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990 because it was in the GOP platform, or the Democrats for that matter. We did so because there is a lot of oil in the ground in that country, even if we don't actually buy much of it in the States.