The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Well, it pains me to say it .. but just as his hundred years remark really wasn't saying the war or occupation would go on that long, his remark that we wouldn't fight future wars over oil was not really an admission that we are currently doing so.

"that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East."

And I'm just not buying the, "Oh, I meant the FIRST Gulf War," CYA line. Who the hell, in 2008, would talk about war in the Middle East and figure that the default meaning, with no further qualification, means the war that ended 20 years ago and not the one that's ongoing and in the news every single minute of every single day. Does he really want us to believe he's that clueless?