21 US dead in Iraq today. bush & Henry K explain why...

[LynnTheDem]

"They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend."
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?section=opinion&xfile=data/opinion/2007/january/opinion_january62.xml

"I know some Americans don't think that is a threat. I view it as a threat because — and the reason it's a threat is I can conceivably see a world in which radicals and extremists control oil. And they would say to the West: You either abandon Israel, for example, or we're going to run the price of oil up."
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=2594541&page=2

[Rex]

1. Shit.

21. what number does it have to get to? 42? 420 a day? What's it gonna take?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. It would take a draft. Otherwise this could go on forever.

[Rex]

4. A slow bleeding.

This is madness.

[neoblues]

3. Guess which of the two...

can make a complete, unbroken sentence.

Oil, it appears, can be quite a curse (and warrants uninvited 'guests'); hope it doesn't become much more of one to us. If only scientists could find a new and better energy source... (wishful thinking, alas).

[enigmatic]

5. Cold-blooded and Callous

That's Henry Kissinger.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

6. I just cannot believe he's still around . . .

. . . still muttering evil incantations in the ears of yet another Nixon administration. The bleeding of Cambodia, the torture of Chile . . . it just wasn't enough. Goddamn him.

:banghead:

[Octafish]

7. Henry the Killer's been helping Bushes make war for decades.

The oil. The oil.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I lost track at 13

holy shit... IF THIS TREND CONTINUES we may be at the begining of something truly horrible (or more so than it already is)