"John H" wrote in message
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Maybe, given your immense knowledge of almost everything, you can
explain something to me. If the administration is a bunch of liars,
and if the administration wants to remain in power, and if remaining
in power is in any way dependant (sp?) on jobs, and if the job numbers
come from the administration, then why the hell doesn't the
administration just cook the books? Surely they could claim 150000 new
jobs every month and do it in a believable way.

Let's stick to the oil for the moment, John. As you just said, we should
have a safer oil supply after invading Iraq. Never mind the fact that it
wasn't endangered to start with. In any case, the price is going up. The
administration is part of a crowd that's got its hands in each others
pants.
Always has, always will. Why is the price going up when, according to
their
spew, it's become safer to go & get it?


Sorry, I didn't key on the word "safer." I don't think I used the
term. I can see how a stable government in Iraq could provide for a
"safer" environment in the Middle East, and therefore a safer
environment for our oil supply, over the long term.

For a number of years, we weren't buying Iraqi oil anyway, and other than
the usual summertime vacation price hikes, the price was pretty reasonable &
stable. By any stretch of the imagination, the war should've been a
non-event vis-a-vis oil prices. But, for the benefit of you-know-who, the
war has been artificially connected oil prices.