[jwpjr]

This war has to do with oil only in that the people who hate us and want us dead just happen to be sitting on a lot of the world's oil and we need that oil maintaining our way of life. I for one am ready to turn the clock back 100 years on western civilization if that what it takes to end our dependence on the oil that comes from this part of the world. Where we have failed most miserably is that we have not made it a national priority to find other sources of energy to support our way of life. In the 50's we thought it was going to be nuclear (however you pronounce it!) and then the greens got a wild hair and we see what happened to that promised source of energy.

[edweena]

jwpjr wrote:
Where we have failed most miserably is that we have not made it a national priority to find other sources of energy to support our way of life.

I would like to hear these words repeated by our leaders like a prayer at the beginning and ending of every legislative session, court session, press conference, investigative hearing, state funeral, town hall meeting, zoning board hearing etc., etc., etc. It's this cursed dependence on oil that has tied our hands in dealing with governments like Saudi Arabia, who are corrupt and repressive beyond redemption.

We can pay to wean ourselves off oil, or we can pay to control its sources militarily. I'd rather we could bring all Americans home from places like Saudi Arabia, and wish the Muslims happiness with their virgins, or raisins, or whatever in Paradise, because they weren't getting another penny from us. Because no matter how much we hate them for acts like this, they're still getting billions of dollars from us.

[Mister Baredog]

and then the greens got a wild hair

As long as we are willing to let these morons determine policy we will just have to wait for a very large die off of people, that's their real goal. They think humans are the problem.