Where is all the oil we got from Iraq?

For that matter, where is anything we got from Iraq, except killed and maimed soldiers? We paid billions of dollars to rebuild the Iraq infrastructure - with a lot of that money being wasted on unfinished projects, etc. etc....that's American exceptionalism for you...

Nevertheless, Rush has it right below. The whole world is trying to get Ghadaffi to leave, but if we, the US, invade, well, we're just doing it for the oil. How can this be? Now that Obama is President, and has set the bar for America's integrity so high - they must know we'd only do it because Ghadaffi is a loon who is massacreing his own people...

Mrs. Clinton Assures the World: America Won't Steal Libya's Oil

RUSH: When I'm doing show prep, and I come across something I really can't believe. I said, "The Politico has to have this wrong," and then I got the sound bite roster, and Politico did not get this wrong. Politico story: "White House Faces Key Test on Libya Crisis." So I'm reading the story, and I said, "Okay, what's the 'key test'?" according to Libya and the Politico. So I read down and it says, "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice have spoken with increasing force against Qadhafi. But Clinton on Tuesday was clear about what she regards as the dangers of a military response." Now, listen to this.

This is what Mrs. Clinton, the secretary of state, said. Quote: "'If you follow, as we follow, all of the websites that are looking at what's happening in the Middle East, you see a constant drumbeat that "the United States is going to invade Libya to take over the oil -- and we can't let that happen,"' she told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, adding a second justification of earlier White House warnings that posturing could have endangered American citizens who had not left the country." We can't use the military here, including in the defense and evacuation of our own people, because of what "websites" are saying about taking over Libya for the oil?

Well, what kind of "website" would be saying that kind of blather? MoveOn.org, some far-left site? I said, "That can't be. It can't be." I know these guys during Iraq and the Bush administration, "No blood for oil," and all that. They were running around saying that the only reason we went into Iraq was for the oil. But now we've got people who believe that tripe, not projecting American power in America's best interests because they fear what's being said on "websites" about taking over Libyan oil? And, by the way, what would have been wrong if we had taken over Iraqi oil? Did we not liberate the place?

Did we not rebuild the infrastructure of the Iraqi oil business to make it worth something and produce oil and export it? Why in the world are we not entitled to it? So I got the sound bite roster, and she said it yesterday morning at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, some hearing. She's talking to Republican Steve Chabot (Republican-Ohio). He said, "Our unwillingness to use or threaten to use force to protect our own citizens has left many around the world pointing to the incident as a sign of weakness of the American will. What led [the regime] to believe that threatening force to protect our own citizens would have been provocative? Could you please explain this to us, Secretary Clinton?"

HILLARY: We feel that, uh, we did this in a prudent and effective manner, and we did it in a way that did not raise the alarm bells around the region and the world that we were about to invade for oil.

RUSH: For crying out loud, nobody believed that we were invading Iraq for the oil except extreme nutcases like Mrs. Clinton and her crowd back in 2003. Even before that, even -- all the way back to Desert Storm in the nineties they accused us of going into Iraq for Iraq's oil. What kind of insanity is this? The people running this country don't even want ours! The people running the United States have shut down our own oil drilling. Why in the world would people think we want to go take Libya's? The people running the United States hate oil. To them, it may as well be DDT. It may as well be some kind of poison.

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