I sometimes wonder why this sudden witch hunt Bush has declared on Venezuela.There's no other reason than oil I suppose. Why doesn't mr.Bush make such a fuss about dictators in countries were there's no oil to be gained?
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Yes, they've already done it.  The economic hit men have killed numerous central and south American politicans in the name of oil.  \n\nDo i think he'll out and out order a hit or go to war?  No.  Do i think chavez will die in an "accidental" plane crash if he failes to cooperate?  Yes.
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His behavior cannot be justified as it is based in greed. Not much is made of the memo here in the states by the so called liberal press. He was looking to go to war with Iraq any way he could but his decision is immersed in the oil fields not the people. He don't care about our people, why would he care about them.
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We are importing about half of what we use now. If you would like to choose which half of our nation cannot use oil, then we could quit importing.\n\nIt isn't a matter of how much oil is in the ground. We can't produce it fast enough, or refine it fast enough to more than marginally outpace demand.
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Yeah Chavez is definately a wacko, but as you said he has done good things about the oil and energy. But In many other ways he is not handling well the situation with Usa. A president is supposed to look for better relationships with other countries and know what words to use and when to shut up. He clearly does not know that.
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I disagree with knowsigns... that was one mistake clinton made, but what about the mistakes Buh has made? I'm a New Yorker and was deeply affected by the 9/11 tragedy. What did Bush do about that tragedy? Invade the privacy of millions of Americans  right? What should he have done? If you read Time magazine you would've read a punchline about how some director is making a movie about the search for osama bin laden, it's 300 hours long with no ending. That is precisely the kind of search President Bush led. I am oly 12 and you cannot guess how strong the deep contempt for the failed capture of Osama Bin Laden is. During that search he went off into Iraq, called it operation Iraqi Liberation, or: O.I.L. What did he want? the destroyer of America in jail, or oil? He didn't even need oil then. I know what people will say that he didn't do it for oil, but how sure can you be? My theory about why he changed Operation Iraqi Liberation's name was because OPEC told him you can't have our oil. He didn't want to look stupid that's why he changed the name! In my point of view Bush is the worst president we possibly could have at times like this when theres a war being waged in Iraq!! I'm only 12 years old and i feel this way, call me an anger bomb just waiting to explode, but i would say some very "colorful" things about our dear president if i didn't have faith in the Americans that trusted him.
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Liberals don't think, they feel. As you point out, they think Bush is responsible for everything. That is because most attended a government sanctioned child abuse center, aka public school. Thus, you will get idiots replying that this was a "war for oil".  If so, then the price of gas would be around $1.00 a gallon.  Simple supply and demand.  \n\nLet's take a look at a few facts.  First, the cost of crude oil for each gallon of gas sold in this country has gone up from about 35 cents per gallon in 1999 to $1.59 per gallon in 2006.   So ... crude oil prices go up by 454% over a period of seven years.  How much did gas prices go up during the same period?  Try 162%.  Looks to me like things could be worse.\n\nSo ... did George Bush set those crude oil prices?  Did the oil companies go out there and set the prices that high?  Helllloooo!  Do you think the oil producing countries like Saudi Arabia might have had anything to do with it?  Is it possible that the ever-increasing worldwide demand for crude oil was a factor?  How about the fact that oil exploration slowed several years ago when crude was selling for under $20 a barrel?  Now that the price is so much higher many more companies are getting into the exploration business ... but it takes somewhere around 5 years from discovery of an oil deposit to actual production.  The price of oil didn't start its uphill swing until about 2004.  Do the math.  You also have the fact that oil is a commodity that is traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange.  Traders have much to do about setting prices.  Do you suppose that George Bush is calling these traders in to coach them on just what those prices should be?  That's what the Democrats want you to believe.\n\nBesides, can Big Oil set the price, even if it wanted to?  As The Motley Fool points out on their website, there are dozens of publicly traded oil companies.  Add to that mix the government-owned oil companies like Saudi Aramco, and the hundreds of small private companies (my brother used to be the president of one such company) that are drilling around the world ... and the Democrats want you to believe that they all got together to set these crude prices?  Not one of these companies wants to seek an advantage in the market place by lowering their prices?\n\nThis is all about playing on the ignorance of the American people for political advantage.  These Democrats and most in the media know the score.  They understand the difference between gross profits and profit margins ... and they know that most Americans do not.
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Nice argument.  It's almost like when you ask:\nOR\nWhy do we have more oil than Iran but can't touch it because environmentalists won't let us drill of the Atlantic or Pacific or in Alaska or off the coast of Florida?\nOR\nWhy did the secret Echelon Program (eavesdropping & call-logging) reach its peak during the Clinton era?\nOR\nHow is it that Bush "didn't do enough" to prevent 9/11 but now he's "doing too much" to try and stop another one?\n\nInteresting, isn't it?
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The oil consipiracy holds about as much water as the 9/11 consipiracy.\n\nDemocrats will often cling to any excuse they "hear" about for being against the Bush administration.  It's a shame some are even rooting for their own country to lose in Iraq.
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Mmm...He's gonna ask his daddy first!\n\nAnd then check how are things with his own OIL companies!\n\nI do believe that N.Korea is next on the list, since he doesn't like competition. \n\nThen Venezuela, when he finds out that he's running out of oil, again!
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I know that it's hard to understand.  Why President Bush, if he claims that Iraq has nuclear weapons, won't go to places like China or North Korea.  But the reason is because those poor countries don't have oil.
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Nothing. They're not the first nor will they be the last, unfortunately. One of the guys "Menchaca" is from my home-town. I'm very upset about it but what can the military do? They're following Bush's orders. To think it's all for the oil.
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To take Saddam's oil.  I'm guessing the U.S. tried to make a deal with him in the 80's but it didn't go well, so the U.S. decided to make him 'an offer he wouldn't refuse'.  But he did, and look what happened.  How would you feel if the price of gas shot up to $3/L or $10/gallon?  << THAT'S WHY.  In order for our way of life to continue someone's else way of life has to be altered.
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Bush is one of the reasons we have higher gas prices. Don't you think he could do something about them if he wanted to? Remember the last president that had big gas price increases? It was his father, another oil man.\n\nIf people didn't want the price of oil to go up then they shouldn't have elected an oil man!!  Why do you think we are in Iraq? Why do you think the moron is interested in Iran? It's the oil stupid!\n\nHe's bumbling himself into being an extremely wealthy man in the world. Where do you think he will go to work after he leaves office? (BTW, where a president goes after leaving office says a lot about him)
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If it were a war for oil, wouldn't we be bringing all that oil over here?  It is, in fact, a completely oil-less war.  We've gotten no oil out of it.  If we had taken that oil - free oil - prices would be at an all-time low.\n\nAlso, for those that say it's a war for oil because Bush is an oil baron, the last thing an oil baron would do would be anything that increases supply.  That would make the price go down.  So, if Bush were an oil baron, the absolute last thing he would want would be a war for oil.  Simple supply and demand.\n\nThe truly twisted, tinfoil-hat crowd should be claiming that Bush went to war to PREVENT Iraqi oil from getting to the U.S., thus restricting supply.  So, maybe it would be a war FROM oil.  See, the crazy conspiracists can't even get their conspiracies right.
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For the oil\n\nThe current bush is still upset with Saddam for trying to kill his daddy
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George Bush is doing a hell of a job in the whitehouse! Now to answer your question I will ask one of my own; How does a country take over the world? Simple, by controlling the oil. I don't see any problem with that. Gas prices are fine the way they are. And finally weapons of mass destruction, we did find them, many of them, they are called terrorists.
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Chavez is preaching his Marxist socialism to the surrounding countries in South and Central America.  The one main difference is that with him being a strong arm dictator in control of the military (and eliminating any political or military competition) he can get away with nationalizing private enterprise and can sell it as a redistribution of wealth.\n\nBut you'll notice that Venezuela has a serious gap between the "haves" and "have nots".  Essentially he is eliminating the middle class because the companies he is nationalizing are mom and pop establishments, not major corporations.  And for an oil rich nation in the throes of socialism not a lot of the oil profits are trickling down to the masses, even the infrastructures are poor.\n\nThere is a very small upper class and a very large lower class, and through nationalization not much of a middle class.\n\nThis sort of socialism is destined to fail in the countries where there is not a strong army to keep the government in power.  Taking away people's ownership of he little they own for the better of the country won't play well in most of these countries where most businesses are small enterprises.\n\nBut I predict a few countries will follow Chavez' lead until the bubble bursts.