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Jezebel 
11/04/09
11/04/09
Please come home Capt. Baby Izzie needs to know you better. #camplejeune
11/04/09
Good luck guys. #camplejeune
11/04/09
Please bring this soldier, and all of the other soldiers fighting this unwinnable war over oil, home. His baby girl needs him.
Respectfully,
Escalade #camplejeune
11/04/09
Sigh. #camplejeune
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11/05/09
For example, Saddam's Oil for Food program was a notoriously corrupt, fairly efficient way of getting Iraq's oil to the West, and Saddam had proven plenty of willingness to play ball with us in the past. Secular strong-men are convenient like that. If we simply wanted profits from Iraq's oil, which of the following ways strikes you as a better way to get it:
1) Launch an incredibly costly war that will decimate Iraq's infrastructure and cost far, far, far more than any marginal difference in oil profits you'd get by 'cutting out the middle-man'?
2) Strike a deal with Saddam?
Or, hey, how about:
3) Realize that oil is a fungible commodity, and so who pumps it out of the ground usually isn't the real issue. As one secret classified intelligence source They Don't Want You To Know About (Wikipedia) puts it:
"Fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are capable of mutual substitution. Examples of highly fungible commodities are crude oil, wheat, orange juice ... "
Along with your 'wearing your politics on your sleeve' username, this is the sort of unthinking liberalism that gives the rest of us liberals a bad name. It's a homemade Chimpy McBusHitler sign as a substitute for grappling with the actual issues at hand.
11/05/09
Off to go change my screenname now to Chimpy McBusHitler. Or maybe FungibleCommodity. That has such a nice ring to it.
11/05/09
My goal is less to change your mind, per se, than to not let such statements pass by unchallenged. There's one of you; there are dozens of people in the peanut gallery. Hopefully if any of them have any question in their mind as to whether or not we're in a war over oil, they can look at your statement, look at mine, and sort things out for themselves.
11/05/09
Seriously, though: Thank goodness for cogent arguments like yours. If I may speak for all the other Unthinking Liberals in the peanut gallery, how else would we get our information? I personally might have gone on like this for years had you not taken the time set me straight. Because, you know, I'm too busy being an enemy of liberty and freedom to read the newspaper. (Oh, dear...which, come to think of it, is controlled by Unthinking Liberal Media Elites!)
Should I not respond to you again from here on out, please don't be sad. It's likely I'm off at a pro-war rally with other Thinking Liberals like you. See ya there! And to all you other Unthinking Liberals who may still not have made up your minds: Hope you'll join me!
Kisses,
Chimpy McBus Hitler (Still love that name!)
11/05/09
Sort of, but Monty Python did it better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0 #camplejeune
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Homecomings always make me teary, even when they don't involve someone I know.
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Is this picture going to be the Iraq War's equivalent of this one?
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