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Too good not to share, and so true.

Dr. Win the War
Posted by Lew Rockwell at 07:29 PM

So now The Leader tells us we are "addicted" to foreign oil, and must go, if not cold turkey, into an expensive, tax-funded recovery program that will further enrich the feds.

Why is foreign oil supposed to be a problem? We are also addicted to Chinese clothes, Japanese electronics, German cars, and a host of other imports. All non-coerced trade is beneficial to both parties, and in the case of international trade, also promotes peace among nations. This is consonant with the commercial society this was supposed to be, rather than a vicious empire.

Oil is no different from other goods. Leaving aside the Bush crazies, buying Arabian oil should make us less likely to want to bomb them. This process has been shortcircuited by more than sixty years of US killing and looting in the Middle East, however.

Pull the troops out, abolish the CIA, and trade, trade, trade. But that would mean we want peace and prosperity rather than dominion and blood. The Leader has other plans.

And, a later post on the same subject.

re: Dr. Win the War
Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo at 07:56 PM

Bush's Al Gore/Sierra Club-like complaint that we are supposedly "addicted to foreign oil" is actually more than a little bone chilling. His handlers and speechmakers obviously included this to prepare us for further military invasions of other Middle East countries. As long as we trade with these countries, the crazed, bloodthirsty neocons at the Heritage Foundation, Weekly Standard, National Review, AEI, Hoover, and elsewhere understand that there will be great public opposition to their Jacobin crusade to remake the world in the image of Irving Kristol.

If Rush Limbaugh does a 360 and begins supporting this environmentalist psychobabble, after ridiculing Al Gore for it for all these years, then he should be considered as the biggest ass-kissing hypocrite in America and no better than the worst of Soviet and Nazi propagandists. http://blog.lewrockwell.com/

Both well thought out and very appropriate responses to the Bush monologue, by two of America's finest scholars.