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As the last American combat troops left Iraq last week, Oil-tycoon-turned-clean-energy-innovator T. Boone Pickens was at the American Renewable Energy Day conference in Aspen, lamenting that the U.S. didn’t take hold of the rich oil fields in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation before they left. Pickens at first elicited laughs from an audience at the Paepcke Auditorium on Saturday night, as he bluntly made the case for America’s right to Iraq’s oil. Those laughs subsided as he recalled how he personally lobbied Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to seize Iraq’s natural resources. “I’ve heard people accuse President Bush...

Never Heard Of Sam Wyly? Maybe You Know The Two George Bush Opponents Who He Helped Destroy Joe Weisenthal Jul. 30, 2010, 5:22 AM Despite being mega-wealthy, it's possible that plenty of folks have never heard of the Texas-based Wyly brothers, who were charged by the SEC with insider fraud yesterday. So who are they? Well in addition to being boardmembers of several companies, they're also big GOP boosters, and Sam in particular did A LOT for George W. Bush. In 2000, he backed a shadowy group "Republicans for Clean Air" that pressed hard to defeat John McCain in the...