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Monday, October 25, 2004

Bush Administration ADMITS protecting oil was more important
Posted by Jill | 3:43 PM

From today's press gaggle:


Q She [Condoleeza Rice] was informed days after October 15th?

MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, and she informed the President. And the first priority, from our standpoint, was to make sure that this wasn't a nuclear proliferation risk, which it is not. These are conventional high explosives that we are talking about. And the President wants to make sure that we get to the bottom of this. Now, the Pentagon, upon learning of this, directed the multinational forces and the Iraqi survey group to look into this matter, and that's what they are currently doing.

[snip]

Q But after Iraqi Freedom, there were those caches all around, wasn't the multinational force -- who was responsible for keeping track --

MR. McCLELLAN: At the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom there were a number of priorities. It was a priority to make sure that the oil fields were secure, so that there wasn't massive destruction of the oil fields, which we thought would occur. It was a priority to get the reconstruction office up and running. It was a priority to secure the various ministries, so that we could get those ministries working on their priorities, whether it was --


This is simply astounding. First of all, we now have a pattern of Condoleeza Rice shrugging her shoulders when the word "conventional" is used: "conventional" hijacking...."conventional" high explosives. The result of the first shrug was the collapse of the World Trade Center and the deaths of 3000 people. Who knows what the death toll of this second shoulder shrug will be.

Then, we have the President's spokesperson ADMITTING that securing the oil fields took priority over the safety of our soldiers; indeed, took priority over EVERYTHING else. The President and his cronies are oilmen. Oil is over $55/barrel.

In 1988, I said of the FIRST George Bush that this family regards the entire country as a private fiefdom for themselves and their friends. I was wrong. They regard the entire WORLD as their private fiefdom.
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