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To: TimF who wrote (58670)	4/11/2008 4:38:02 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 543153

Tim; Maybe someone said it, but Bush didn't, and it was never an idea seriously pushed by almost anyone. You need to watch the Jon Stewart show. steve

To: TimF who wrote (58670)	4/11/2008 4:49:17 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543153

>>Maybe someone said it, but Bush didn't, and it was never an idea seriously pushed by almost anyone.<< Tim - Wrong. It took me one minute to find these quotes: “Iraq has oil,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Fortune magazine in 2002, discussing the potential cost of an Iraq invasion and how it would be met. “They have financial resources.” Paul Wolfowitz, formerly Rumsfeld’s deputy, was bolder: “The oil revenues of that country could bring in between $50 (billion) and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years,” he told Congress as the war began. “We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction.” For his economic acumen, Wolfowitz was rewarded with the presidency of the World Bank. Source: cantonrep.com The Defense Secretary and the Deputy Defense Secretary seriously pushed that idea. I seem to recall others saying it as well, but so much has been written about this over the years it's hard to sift the data to find the exact quotations. Meanwhile, did you know that US forces are importing about 3 million gallons of fuel into Iraq every day? - Allen