Political Quotes

“for some time I have been coming to the floor to speak of a major inconsistency in our foreign and energy policies. I am referring, of course, to our growing dependence on imported petroleum from Iraq. We import somewhere between 500,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil from Iraq every day. About six billion dollars worth last year. Since the end of the gulf war, we have also flown some 250,000 sorties to prevent Saddam Hussein from threatening our allies in the region. We spend billions every year to keep him in check. We fill up our planes with Iraqi oil, send our pilots to fly over and get shot at by Iraqi artillery, and return to fill up on Iraqi oil again. Saddam heats our homes in winter, gets our kids to school each day, gets our food from farm to dinner table, and we pay him well to do that. What does he do with the money he gets from oil? He pays his Republican Guards to keep him safe. He supports international terrorist activities; he funds his military campaign against American servicemen and women and those of our allies; and he builds an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction to threaten Israel and our allies in the Persian Gulf. Am I missing something? Is this good policy?”