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Old 04-13-2016, 05:34 PM   #121
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The fact is... China got the oil first.
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I think you're missing the point. Oil is a commodity. China was willing to secure contracts because they had a different business plan. Chinese domestic production is shrinking yet they have demand. The US has both domestic production and demand along with a natural gas excess.
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Old 04-13-2016, 05:43 PM   #122
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Remember bush justified the war by saying "Iraq would pay for the war with their oil"?
What was that all about? I think something went on that we don't know about between bush and China and maybe how we couldn't pay off our debts to them. (Or something like that...). Tinfoil hat is on standby
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Remember bush justified the war by saying "Iraq would pay for the war with their oil"?
What was that all about? I think something went on that we don't know about between bush and China and maybe how we couldn't pay off our debts to them. (Or something like that...). Tinfoil hat is on standby
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I don't think Bush ever said that, it was Paul Wolfowitz who served under Donald Rumsfeld.

It's interesting that people will have seizures over Benghazi yet totally ignore strategic failures that are order of magnitude larger in scale.
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Old 04-13-2016, 07:15 PM   #124
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I don't think Bush ever said that, it was Paul Wolfowitz who served under Donald Rumsfeld.

It's interesting that people will have seizures over Benghazi yet totally ignore strategic failures that are order of magnitude larger in scale.
If those strategic failures have been ignored, it is a wonder that we heard (and still hear, apparently) so much about them.
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Old 04-13-2016, 07:47 PM   #125
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I don't think Bush ever said that, it was Paul Wolfowitz who served under Donald Rumsfeld.

It's interesting that people will have seizures over Benghazi yet totally ignore strategic failures that are order of magnitude larger in scale.
He did say that.. i have a photographic memory.
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He did say that.. i have a photographic memory.
Should be easy to find a quote then. I'm not saying the administration didn't promote it, but I don't think Bush ever said it.
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I can vividly remember him standing behind the podium with that Alfred e Newman stare and big ears saying something along the lines of defending the wars cost and the fact that the Iraqi government would help pay for it wit their oil. I can't search for this with my iPhone but I'm certain. I remember wolfowitz saying this, Cheney said something as well and then Rumsfeld said that the war had nothing to do with oil. LOL.
THE FACT IS... The oil of Iraq was nationalized under saddam and not is is being ectraxted by foreign corporations.

I rest my case.
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I think you're missing the point. Oil is a commodity. China was willing to secure contracts because they had a different business plan. Chinese domestic production is shrinking yet they have demand. The US has both domestic production and demand along with a natural gas excess.
stop talking to Eben like he's 4 years old
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THE FACT IS... The oil of Iraq was nationalized under saddam and not is is being ectraxted by foreign corporations.

I rest my case.


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Old 04-16-2016, 08:58 AM   #130
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Ted Cruz grilled on economics and his tax plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=wDu2fWId8CA

He is head and shoulders above Trump in being able to handle interviews without dodging or filibustering. Maybe head and shoulders above all the other candidates of either party. It's a 40-50 minute interview, but well worth watching.

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What scares me the most is that cruz will make decisions based on his religion over what might be best decided in a non biased point of view.
I see bloody wars in our future with Cruz at the wheel
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What scares me the most is that cruz will make decisions based on his religion over what might be best decided in a non biased point of view.
I see bloody wars in our future with Cruz at the wheel
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I didn't see any evidence of what you fear in the video. It was a very rational proposal based on economics, not religion.

BTW, some of the bloodiest wars have been caused by the pseudo-religion of socialism.

Also, the vast majority of his political arguments don't involve religion. And it is amazing how you can call others bigots who point out Islam's incompatibility with our values and secular system of government, yet you have this fear of Christians who have had such a major part of founding and sustaining our secular society. Reagan was as much a Christian as Cruz is, but he didn't make decisions based on his religion. And, rather than starting bloody wars, he helped bring down one of the bloodiest regimes in world history.

I don't see much evidence that American Christian leaders have started wars because of religion. Our wars have been for other reasons.

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