Fearing High Gas Prices, Sean Hannity Proposes Re-Invading Iraq and Kuwait To ‘Take All Their Oil’

[kpete]

HANNITY: There’s two things I said. I say why isn’t Iraq paying us back with oil, and paying every American family and their soldiers that lost loved ones or have injured soldiers — and why didn’t they pay for their own liberation? For the Kuwait oil minister — how short his memory is. You know, we have every right to go in there and frankly take all their oil and make them pay for the liberation, as these sheiks, etcetera etcetera, you know were living in hotels in London and New York, as Trump pointed out, and now they’re gouging us and saying ‘oh of course we can withstand these prices.’”

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/14/hannity-invade-iraq/

[ananda]

1. OR we could do something responsible like ...

... end our dependence on fossil fuels and improve mass transit.

[leeroysphitz]

2. Third time is the charm. n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Again?

:wtf:

[baldguy]

4. Why don't we grind up conservative talk show hosts for fuel?

There seems to be an endless supply.

[rosesaylavee]

10. This has my vote...

Solved two problems with one answer. Very efficient.

[redwitch]

13. You are brilliant!

I would be good with this. ;-)

[KamaAina]

41. Or just attach hoses to their windpipes

and heat the entire Northern Hemisphere with all that hot air?

[Ilsa]

5. Bush 41 turned down a Saudi gift of $10,000 to each soldier, unless this

Was an urban legend. Bush 41 said "Our soldiers aren't mercenaries." or something to that effect. My brother, a soldier in the first Persian Gulf War, was pissed.

Hannity is talking out his ass. It is almost impossible to believe he'd say something so reckless. What an asshole.

[qazplm]

7. well in this case

Bush 41 was right, we are not mercenaries and that would be a ridiculous precedent to set.

IF the Saudi's want to give that money directly to our government with a recommendation that it go towards the military that is one thing....but a mercenary payment straight from the middle ages, no thanks.

[MattBaggins]

6. "why didn’t they pay for their own liberation?"

Hey you stupid moron. They aren't paying for their own liberation because that would be against the Geneva Convention. It is against International Law for the very purpose of preventing imperial nations from invading other countries under unlawful and false pretenses just as a cover to steal their resources.

der duh fucking der you dumb ass moron.

[WinkyDink]

28. And yet we invaded nonetheless.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Chickenhawk Republicons like Hannity are always eager to send someone else

...off to fight their Oil Profits Crusade, or whatever, while they stay at home and count up the millions in payola they get from RepubliCorp.

Ptoooey on the vast legion of Republicon Chickenhawks...

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Is He Still Around?

Based upon the ratings of his shows, i thought he was a phantom with tapes of old shows playing.

First of all, nothing he says matters.

Secondly, nothing he has ever said has been accurate and not one prediction ever turned out to come to fruition.

So, he can say anything and it matters not a whit.
GAC

[social_critic]

11. Hannity is such a comedian

I think you missed the point, Hannity is an entertainer, a comedian. He knows perfectly well we didn't "liberate Iraq" and they're not about to pay us back for invading them. But he's such a prankster. I love watching him on TV, he rolls out joke after joke. Sometimes I laugh so hard at his insanity, I almost pee in my pants. The world just doesn't appreciate his brand of comedy.

[yourout]

12. And when that is gone who do we invade next?

[Puzzler]

14. Yeah sure... a big new war in the Middle East will really bring the gas prices down

[lpbk2713]

15. He probably misses Shit-for-Brains.

And puppetmaster Cheney.

[spanone]

16. hannity is a 20 watt bulb in a 100 watt world

[david13]

17. Why is this so outrageous? This is what the whole idea was to

oh so many americans, only they forgot to do it.
Including bush the younger, was it not?
dc

[badgerpup]

18. Yanno...

This sort of mirrors the rationalization of that guy on YouTube who thought we 'deserved' to have Iraq's oil because "We need it more than they do!"

So, by that rationale, a homeless, hungry person (or somebody else whose resources are gone) is PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED in breaking into this guy's house and taking whatever they feel they "need".

Obviously, they're entitled to anything they took, because they need it more urgently, right?
RIGHT?

[no_hypocrisy]

19. In Hannity's mind, it's OUR oil . . . . .

[MattBaggins]

24. Didn't Rush say how did our oil get under their soil

[cynatnite]

20. So, what are we going to do the second time we invade Iraq that we didn't do the first time?

[Tsiyu]

21. So Bloody Sean thinks you just steal what you want

If you're running out of food, just invade your neighbor's house and take their food.

If your car's getting old, just steal your neighbor's car.

I want a talk show job again. Think I should invade Fox and take Bloody Sean's place?
I'd be liberating him and a whole lot of other folks who listen to him if i did.


I'd make him pay for my invasion supplies, too. (All it would take is a Sarah Palin lookalike to distract him for a few minutes)

[Ikonoklast]

22. Because if we do, the Chinese will not be very happy.

Does that idiot actually believe a word he says?

What if there was a world-wide famine, everywhere but in this country? Would he support foreign governments telling their starving populace that they were going to come over here, and take 'their food'?

[NuclearDem]

23. Derp Dog knows what's going on inside Sean's mind

[Rex]

25. And how is that not inciting acts of violence in Iraq and Kuwait?

By either side!? I guess we still are okay with RWinger inciting violence toward America. Sigh.

[AmandaMae]

26. "paying us back"?? For what? What a warped universe these people live in.

[WinkyDink]

27. "why didn’t they pay for their own liberation?" AS INSANE AS ANY LOUGHNER ANYWHERE.

[rucky]

29. Kuwait?!

That's a new one. Brazil has oil, too. Let's invade them.

:wtf:

[WinkyDink]

30. You don't remember how we SAVED Kuwait, when it was stealing Iraq's oil?

[rucky]

36. I do remember. Slant drilling.

My friend's house was destroyed by bombs and his family moved here. And now Hannity's suggesting we invade Kuwait and steal their oil to pay us back for saving Iraq from invading Kuwait for stealing their oil. Even for Hannity, this is mind-boggling.

[Rex]

31. He is talking about Gulf War I and Poppy Bush.

Hannity is saying people that we invade should be grateful enough to give us all their natural resources and if we kill a lot of them oh well.

I would call him insane, but a lot of idiots agree with him. Yikes.

[Lucian]

32. Instead of fighting wars over ancient dinosaur fuels...

why not spend the money researching better, cleaner, and more efficient ways at driving?

With all the money we wasted in Iraq during the first war and the second, we could've had a car that was all solar and the battery lasted like a month on a single charge.

[goforit]

33. Hello Hannity, Under Sadam Hussein, we paid less per gallon.

[Urban Prairie]

34. I thought that the invasion and occupation of Iraq

Was supposedly going to be brief, that "we" would be greeted as "liberators", and that it would "pay for itself"?

At least that is what the PNAC, and the neocons in the Shrub's administration publicly proclaimed.

Well...for many of the neos, the invasion and especially the long occupation of Iraq certainly was and has been VERY profitable, at least for those who had stock in companies like Halliburton and investments in various contracted defense/support-related businesses, so for them, the occupation more than paid for itself. I suppose that the neos were just "misunderstood" when they first made that statement.

Insannity is truly a tool.

[truth2power]

35. Uh...because they weren't "liberated", you moron. .

Sean Hannity has the most appalling lack of higher-order thinking skills. :eyes:

[RB TexLa]

37. And by someone else owning that oil he thinks it will do what to the price of oil?

[JonLP24]

38. dupe

[Initech]

39. No, war is not the answer. Kicking the asses of the oil speculators, however, is.

[JonLP24]

40. Kuwait makes no sense

It is a great and relatively safe staging area for operations into Iraq.

Getting rid of that would be really dumb in terms of fighting a war, not that we should be in a war in the first place.

[Rage for Order]

42. Because rising gas prices will really affect Hannity

He's only worth a few tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars. What difference does it make to him if gas is $3 or $4 a gallon?

[walldude]

43. Maybe he ought to go ask Wolfowitcz, Cheney and Rumsfeld

who kept insisting that the war would "pay for itself" with oil revenues.


They were allowed to spew this shit for months to drum up support for this illegal war. Why aren't they having to explain what happened? Oh yeah.. moving forward.