[AgThorn]

I equate this, before I quit, I quit drinking in 2001. Before that a lot of people would say, “You’ve got to quit drinking.” I would be like, “Why? I don’t have a problem with alcohol.” And they’d say, “You have to quit drinking alcohol.” I would say, “Alcohol is not the problem. I don’t have a problem with alcohol. I was adamant about that. And then my friend Amy said, “I need you to quit eating oranges. And I went, “Okay.” And then she said, “Do you see? I just asked you to quit eating oranges and you were fine with that. And when I asked you to quit drinking you make a big deal that drinking is absolutely not a problem.” I equate that, if that makes any sense, with the oil issue. If you bring up oil, you are somehow some kind of wing nut.

Uh ... I do think that this girl (and I say that as if I am talking about a little girl, by the way she is lost in her wierd unfounded rationals) needs some serious counsel.

The point is that "oil" is the left's only rational of rock throwing to the right. They have no basis for it other than our president being from Texas has some strong ties to the industry therefore it must be "about oil."

This warped mentality omits that
1 - it is quite clear that for France, it WAS about Oil, and that to keep Saddam in power, was proven to be tied to their strong oil relationship with Iraq and the "bonanza" that they were after with this tie.
2 - They also miss the point that if it was truly "about oil" for the USA, it would be a lot easier to deal with Saddam to buy oil than for some future peoples republic of Iraq that may be more difficult.
3 - If it was about Oil, why did Colin Powell immediately say that ANY funds from Iraq's oil belongs to the Iraqi people and we will hold them in trust until we are gone and we will be gone as soon as possible, which history shows is always pretty damn quick .. sometimes too quick (WW2 coming to mind).

The problem with the Garofalo's of the world is that they simply do not think.... they either make up or simply "parrot" some rationale that they heard that fits with the "anti-Republican" position that they want to hold.

To encourage women and minorities to "vote Democratic" also has no basis in any facts, but that is another subject entirely....

[1IDVET]

"The problem with the Garofalo's of the world is that they simply do not think.... they either make up or simply "parrot" some rationale that they heard that fits with the "anti-Republican" position that they want to hold."

That is the whole premise behind liberals.
They don't use their brains, they usse their emotions.
We can only hope that most of them will grow out of it before it is too late!