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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (671386)	2/6/2005 1:36:34 PM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 769670

Robert Bryce / The Dallas Morning News President Bush has a simple policy regarding energy: Produce more of it. .... a curious transformation is occurring in Washington: a split of foreign policy and energy policy. Many of the leading neoconservatives who pushed hard for the Iraq war are going green. James Woolsey, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a staunch backer of the Iraq war, now drives a 58-miles-per-gallon Toyota Prius and has two more hybrid vehicles on order. Frank Gaffney, the president of the Center for Security Policy and another neocon who championed the war, has been speaking regularly in Washington about fuel efficiency and plant-based fuels. The alliance of hawks and environmentalists is new but not entirely surprising. The environmentalists are worried about global warming and air pollution. But Mr. Woolsey and Mr. Gaffney – both members of the Project for the New American Century, which began advocating military action against Saddam Hussein back in 1998 – are going green for geopolitical reasons, not environmental ones. They seek to reduce the flow of American dollars to oil-rich Islamic theocracies, Saudi Arabia in particular. They say oil dollars have made Saudi Arabia too rich a source of terrorist funding and Islamic radicals. Mr. Gaffney recently pointed out that America has become dependent on oil imported from countries that "by and large are hostile to us." This fact, he said, makes reducing oil imports "a national security imperative." Oh, hello? Did you just wake up neocons? You mean that us liberals were right all along, and the answer is energy efficiency and renewable energy, instead of stealing other's oil? And Saudi Arabia is a source of funding for terrorists, because of gas hog huge SUV owners? Imagine that. Del