Politicans can be so gutless.
"If we try to make defense, foreign policy the overriding issue we will lose, because the country is with the president on this issue," [Representative Martin] Frost said. I'm gonna go out on a limb here: perhaps you should not be making policy decisions based on what will win elections, but rather on what you believe? Or what you said when you ran for office?
While it is probably true that France opposes war with Iraq due to oil, it is also true that the US has a financial motivation for invading Iraq. If the fact that France profits from the current situation leads us to speculate that such profit is their primary motivation, we ought to take equal note of the equivalent situation over on the US side.
Particularly if the division of wealth is already taking place.
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