Oil

One thing that bothers me a lot about both candidates for President is that neither seems committed to developing alternative energy sources as a top priority. Having said that, people who think the war in Iraq is about oil are mistaken. We could have taken the oil fields in 1991 had we so chosen.

Yesterday in a speech to a bunch of people in McAllen, Texas, the mean Teresa Heinz Kerry said, "John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil." John Kerry has been running around screaming that one of the President's mistakes was his failure to build a coalition. By this he means that the President wasn't able to get France and Germany involved in the conflict. Kerry went on to say that the current coalition is a coalition of the "coerced and the bribed."

Here is the important thing to know. The reason France and Germany aren't involved in the war is that France and Germany negotiated to send food and reduced sanctions to Saddam Hussein in return for oil (see the Duelfer Report). In her quote Heinz Kerry indicates that her husband will follow the lead of France and Germany. That is, he will succumb to middle east tyrants as long as they give us a good deal on oil! If Kerry wins this election, we will join France and Germany - as part of the true coalition of the coerced and the bribed.