Pickens urged Bush to take Iraq’s oil

[dandi]

sabra  (1000+ posts)         Mon Aug-23-10 02:21 PM
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Pickens urged Bush to take Iraq’s oil 
 Source: aspen daily news

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 of going to Iraq for their oil,” he began, in a public conversation with CNN founder Ted Turner and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. “That didn’t happen. We didn’t get the oil.”

Pickens argued that the American blood shed in the war was reason enough to take the oil. But, he said, Bush was too concerned about his image and appearing as if the war were a ploy to get the oil to follow Pickens’ plan.

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The 82-year-old Texan recalled a conversation with President Bush as his days in office waned, in which Bush asked about how they could bring the oil to market and battle the public perception that Operation Iraqi Freedom was a war for oil.

“He said, ‘People will think we’re there for the oil.’ And I said, ‘That was eight years ago, a lot’s happened since then — a lot of money spent, a lot of lives lost.’ And he said, ‘How would you price it?’ I said, ‘Price it on the market every day.’”


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Plenty of vitriol for Mr. Pickens and his comment, but no one addresses the obvious - the whole DUmbass meme for the past 7+ years is that we went there solely for the oil. This would seem to indicate otherwise. So where is all this oil we went there to steal?

LiberalFighter  (1000+ posts)         Mon Aug-23-10 02:28 PM
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2. The sooner Pickens leaves the earth the better.

indepat (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-23-10 02:49 PM
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5. What a bleeping f*cking mother-fc*cker: how's this different from Hitler-types, you bleeping
 mother-f*cking sob?

DeSwiss  (1000+ posts)        Mon Aug-23-10 03:26 PM
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11. K&R
 Damn. What an evil piece of shit he is.....

etc., etc.
 
   
 
 

[JohnnyReb]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4514774

Plenty of vitriol for Mr. Pickens and his comment, but no one addresses the obvious - the whole DUmbass meme for the past 7+ years is that we went there solely for the oil. This would seem to indicate otherwise. So where is all this oil we went there to steal?


etc., etc.
 

Taking away the F -word from DUmmies would be like putting a gag on them.

[thundley4]

Isn't SanFranNan tied into some of the energy schemes of T. Boone Pickens?

[JohnnyReb]

Isn't SanFranNan tied into some of the energy schemes of T. Boone Pickens?

Oh yeah...wind...they should put a mobile wind generator in front of the old gas bag.

[AllosaursRus]

Yeah right! "W" asked a senile old man how we should steal Iraq's oil after we liberated them from a monster!

If you believe that.................................

O'Bummer, maybe, Bush, not a chance! hell we weren't even buyin' 50% of it after we got there rigs up and runnin' again!

Bush was more interested in forming another Democracy leaning country in the Middle East than he was worried about oil in the first place! Just how would Iraq pay us back for the freedom we furnished them if we confiscated their only true natural resource? Sounds like a sure way to make them an enemy again.

That old fart has Alzheimers! Bet on it!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Weird.

When Pickens was begging congress for $2 billion in OPM to play Don Quixote, the DUmbasses were spooging on themselves every time his name appeared in press.

One could be left with the impression DUmbasses are of feckless and unprincipled loyalties.

[DefiantSix]

Weird.

When Pickens was begging congress for $2 billion in OPM to play Don Quixote, the DUmbasses were spooging on themselves every time his name appeared in press.

One could be left with the impression DUmbasses are of feckless and unprincipled loyalties.

Go with that impression, sir.  It seems to have served me well thus far.

[AllosaursRus]

Weird.

When Pickens was begging congress for $2 billion in OPM to play Don Quixote, the DUmbasses were spooging on themselves every time his name appeared in press.

One could be left with the impression DUmbasses are of feckless and unprincipled loyalties.

I doubt that will be a surprise to anyone here, Snuggles.