by DFA Staff [courtesy of Blog for America]

I guess President Bush's special relationship with his OPEC buddies only goes so far. From the New York Times:

OPEC on Wednesday rebuffed calls from President Bush to increase oil output, instead citing “mismanagement” of the American economy as a major factor driving prices up.

Danny
Communications Director

by John Darling [courtesy of Blog for America]

By now, four years into Bush’s “war” in Iraq, it should be abundantly clear to everyone, even his minority hardcore base, that every reason Bush gave publicly for invading Iraq was a lie.

Saddam Hussein had no “WMD”, no ties with 9/11, no plans to get his hands on yellowcake uranium (remember those 16 words?), nothing, nothing at all.

One by one all of Bush’s assertions about Iraq’s threat to American have been proven to be lies.

So why did he do it?

Why did he knowingly send our troops out to be killed, mortgaged the future of our children and grandchildren to pay for his “war”, and in doing so jeopardize the entire American economy. What is it that Hussein had that made Bush disregard the future of America? What? The answer is one that seems so obvious now in retrospect that everyone should know it: All Bush ever wanted was Hussein’s oil.