How does * spell "victory" in Iraq?

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Did you know that part of *'s criteria for "victory" in Iraq is that US oil companies control at least 75% of Iraq's oil production? So says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview she gave to NPR recently. You can listen to that interview at the link below. That particular comment is near the end of the interview. But the whole thing is worth listening to.

I’m pretty certain none of the soldiers being killed and wounded in *’s war would have volunteered their lives for that. And if the majority of the American public knew that this was what we are over there fighting for, they’d be taking to the streets by the hundreds of thousands to demand an end to this madness.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6768701

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1. God.

Not only that, see what Steve Clemons has to say about where the additional troops are coming from: http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001867.php

Bush Makes Same Mistake Twice: Pulling Troops from Afghanistan to Deploy to Iraq
President Bush is planning to pull troops out of Afghanistan to deploy to Iraq.

From the Baltimore Sun:

As a last-ditch effort, President Bush is expected to announce this week the dispatch of thousands of additional troops to Iraq as a stopgap measure, an order that Pentagon officials say would strain the Army and Marine Corps as they struggle to man both wars.

Already, a U.S. Army infantry battalion fighting in a critical area of eastern Afghanistan is due to be withdrawn within weeks in order to deploy to Iraq.

According to Army Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Tata and other senior U.S. commanders here, that will happen just as the Taliban is expected to unleash a major campaign to cut the vital road between Kabul and Kandahar. The official said the Taliban intend to seize Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city and the place where the group was organized in the 1990s.

"We anticipate significant events there next spring," said Tata.

You would have thought he would have learned what a mistake this was after Tora Bora.