{"id":27716,"date":"2007-12-05T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:35:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:35:14","slug":"what_s_wrong_with_war_for_oil2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/12\/05\/what_s_wrong_with_war_for_oil2\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Wrong with War for Oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Listen to this. This is Joe Biden last night with Chris Matthews on Hardboiled. Matthews says, ‘Why did we invade Iraq? Senator Biden, we were we threatening World War III with Iran, why did this administration, Cheney and the president, keep pushing the war? Why do they always want to fight or scare somebody? What is it about if it\u2019s not weapons?\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I can\u2019t prove it. I think it\u2019s about our ability to try to dominant that region of the world to control oil. The only thing I can fit together with Cheney and his gang is that they went to war, they are smarter than they are acting. They went to war in the hope that they would be able to do two things. One, have a government that sat on a whole bunch of oil that would still exist in the world that would be indebted to us. Two, have permanent military bases in Iraq to dominate that part of the world, to be able to control oil, not to go steal it for American oil companies, but to be able to control the price and control the access of it, a very Machiavellian view.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have multiple reactions to this. He\u2019s very deft here for Senator Biden, starts out, says he can\u2019t prove it, says I don\u2019t think they\u2019re trying to get the oil for Big Oil. Can I give you a real simple reality? It may be controversial, but it\u2019s inarguable. This is a world that runs on fossil fuels, folks, and it\u2019s going to run on fossil fuels long after you and I and your grandkids are dead. Wind, solar, all pipe dream stuff, as we sit here and speak now. Would somebody explain to me what is so immoral about the leaders of this country attempting to maintain a supply and access to the fossil fuel that runs the world and runs our economy? It is the fuel. I\u2019m not suggesting Biden is right. What I\u2019m suggesting here is that even if a part of all of the strategy here is to maintain the free flow of oil at market prices, what in the name of Sam Hill is wrong with that? What\u2019s the crime? Where\u2019s the immorality in it? <\/p>\n

What\u2019s wrong with having a friendly nation in the Middle East allied with us? What\u2019s wrong with this? Biden said all of this as though he\u2019s indicting Cheney and Bush as criminals over oil. Now, I know this kind of thing plays well with these nut bins that make up the Democrat Party base, but I ask you a serious question of human being to human being, what in the world is so immoral, or wrong, or irresponsible about trying to maintain the free flow of oil at market prices for the purposes of the US economy and its growth — that\u2019s jobs, that\u2019s people\u2019s lifestyles, that\u2019s people\u2019s lives, what is so wrong with this? I am not conceding that that\u2019s what this is all about. I\u2019m only reacting to Biden and his attitude here that somehow a nation that thrives, and lives, and depends on, and requires the free flow of oil at market prices is somehow criminally disposed if it seeks to maintain the free flow of oil at market prices. Hell\u2019s bells, folks, somebody\u2019s gotta do something to protect us from liberals and Democrats. <\/p>\n

We can\u2019t drill for our own oil in Alaska; we can\u2019t drill for it in the Gulf, while the ChiComs and the Cubans and the Mexicans are and the Brazilians are, but we can\u2019t. We can\u2019t open our capped wells — they were capped back in the eighties — and get that, we can\u2019t do that, we can\u2019t use our own. Where are we going to get it? This attitude that these Democrats have, it\u2019s like I said yesterday, we get up every day, come in here, and what this job has become in large measure is defending this country against these people and their screwball ideas. Senator Biden takes a train home to Delaware every day. He doesn\u2019t have a place in Washington, when he has to stay, chums with somebody. What does he think his Amtrak train runs on? What does he think the lights and the air-conditioning in his Senate office run on, or the restaurants that he goes to out there, what does he think powers all this? This is just the height of irresponsibility, this answer about oil. He tried to indict Bush and Cheney as only caring about that, all the rest of this was just a sideshow, they actually want to get their hands on the oil supply, the Middle East\u2019s oil supply. Somebody has to do something to get around the obstacles posed to growth and freedom in this country by liberal Democrats and the Democrat Party in general today. <\/p>\n

Here is Steve in Saginaw, Michigan. Steve, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, Merry Christmas. I got one question. Why don\u2019t we let neighbors around Iran worry about the nukes they may or may not have? They have more to lose than we ever thought of losing. It\u2019s their oil field that they\u2019re going to lose. That\u2019s if they don\u2019t have the ability to get it out of, you know, range of their — the real tight neighborhood. I mean, we could implement Star Wars and protect ourselves. Forget the crap about them and their oil? Merry Christmas, though.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who gives a crap about them and their oil?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean I want their oil, sure, but I mean we worry about Ahmadinejad so much. Why? Who cares? It\u2019s the neighborhood that\u2019s going to get damaged more than we are. I understand nuclear is not a good thing, but give me a break. We protect our own borders, which George Bush doesn\u2019t want to do, but anyway.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you going to vote next November?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, hell yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why? (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) It\u2019s that bad?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s that bad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my God.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s that bad. Have you ever heard of the concept of leadership?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of what?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you heard of the concept, and do you understand the concept of leadership?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Leadership.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Leadership, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So the Saudis don\u2019t need to take control of their own neck of the woods? We gotta do it for them? We gotta police their world? Why?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You were on hold. Did you hear what I just had to say about the importance and relevance of oil to this country?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t. But I know we do have to have oil. I know that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not stupid. Come on, Rush. I\u2019m not going to — I\u2019m going to vote —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Then you need to open yours eyes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why? We gotta take charge of everybody?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Saudis cannot. They do not have an army. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they could buy one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Iranians do. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Can\u2019t they buy one?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Iranians are slowly and surely surrounding them. Have you heard about Hezbollah? Have you heard about Hamas?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure, I have. They got more money than we have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Guess who\u2019s funding them? The United Arab Emirates don\u2019t have a military.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But it\u2019s more than that. We\u2019re the United States of America. We are the lone superpower of the world. The things that are being discussed here regarding Iran have to do with our self-interest, our own national security, and protecting the free flow of oil at market prices is clearly in the top ten of US national security, maybe in the top five, and it may be even number one. We cannot farm out our national security. We cannot farm out our national interests to others who have really no interest in ours because they know we can take care of ourselves. I really don\u2019t understand the idea, let them handle it, let them take care of their own — we\u2019re talking nuclear here! If Iran gets hold of, say, the Saudi oil supply and its own, do you want to live in that world?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One thing about this last caller that we had, Steve in Saginaw, Michigan: This is not a neighborhood problem over there! I think that\u2019s the thing people can\u2019t get their arms around here. This is not a neighborhood problem. Pshew! Look, I understand. You know, a little knowledge is okay, but you know what the biggest problem is? It has a huge cost. I\u2019m not making a joke here. Ignorance is the most expensive thing this country pays for in so many ways. Ignorance is what allows this global warming hoax to be believed by a bunch of people who simply are ignorant. I\u2019m not saying stupid. They just don\u2019t know, and yet they think they do. It\u2019s like the example from yesterday. In the last 50 years, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are up, so are global temperatures. ‘Ah! Well! See? CO2 is causing it!\u2019 We don\u2019t know this. We can\u2019t prove it! It has yet to be established. Yet people believe it because, in a linear way, it makes sense. But it\u2019s total ignorance that allows the belief to happen. Same thing here with the situation in the Middle East, be it Iraq, be it Iran, be it Al-Qaeda, be it the war on terror, free flow of oil at market prices, ‘Let \u2019em handle it. It\u2019s not our problem.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ignorance, and we pay a huge price for this. The biggest price we pay for ignorance is electing so damn many Democrats, which is one of the biggest obstacles to progress and success in this country for the individual human being that I have ever encountered. It is ignorance. Devotion to ignorance, bliss, blissful ignorance, is the only explanation for the election of Democrats. If people actually sat down and thought about this and learned what the differences in the two ideologies are, conservatism and liberalism — see, liberalism, you don\u2019t even have to think about it, because it\u2019s all feelings. It\u2019s the most gutless choice you can make. All you have to do is be a liberal and you\u2019re a good person and you care and you have tolerance, all this rotgut that\u2019s not even true, and it\u2019s just easy, and your ignorance allows you to believe a hoax. It allows you to believe, you know, a bunch of propaganda. Ignorance, the most expensive thing we pay for in the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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