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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

We went to war for oil, the problem is that the oil wasn't for "us," it was 
for the boys with the big $$ that floated the presidential campaign. 
Halliburton and others are making billions and they are the ones getting the 
oil.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DSanner106 AT aol.com>


> Speaking of quotes taken out of context, the little McCain ditty has to 
> top
> the charts. He was answering a question about when we would be 100 percent 
> out
> of the middle east and pointed out that as we are still in Germany and 
> Japan
> more than 60 years after those wars that it may be decades or even 100 
> years
> before the last american is out in light of our past history. I have heard
> Obama  and Clinton say that McCain was predicting the war would last that 
> long
> and that  he intended to keep fighting. As we are clearly not at war with
> Japan and  Germany, and that was his analogy, he did not mean the fight 
> would last
> that  long.
>     As for the oil, I sure wish we would actually get  a barrel or two
> instead of paying full price on the open market. It seems that  if that is 
> why we
> went to war, we would not be paying so much for it now... I  have no hope 
> any
> of the three will make major changes in the oil arena as all 3  are taking
> money from the oil interests.