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Feb 20, 2003 It's all about oil! It's all about oil! Bush just wants to take over Iraq so that he can control all that oil. Yeah, sure. I mean after all it worked so well in 1991 that I am sure that we will have no problem doing the same thing this time. During the first gulf war, we liberated Kuwait, and no sooner did we do so that we had buyers and brokers from Exxon, Mobil, Hess, and Kwik Fill, all in Kuwait taking all that oil. We had the trucks lined up over there and we were filling them up with all that great oil. Gas prices dropped to 18 cents a gallon and I was able to bust out my Grandpa's old Chrysler Behemoth and fill its 40 gallon tank and go cruising around for no reason at all. Heck, sometimes I would just let it sit in the driveway and run with a brick on the gas peddle for hours at a time because the gas was so cheap. Thank God that we took over all those oil fields. The Democrats were right in 1991, it was all about oil. (To bad that they were also right that 500,000 of our boys would be coming home in body bags. Those darn Democrats are always right!) NOT!! NOT!! What if it was all about oil? What if we really did want to take over those oil fields in iraq? Why would that be a bad thing? Have you been tot he gas pump lately? I was going to fill my mini- van up with some fine petrol and then I looked at the price per gallon. Let me put it to you this way: I would have filled the tank, but I could't get approved for the loan. If, for some reason this war is all about oil, well then I say "more power to 'em!" I for one am tired of carpooling with my three neighbors who all have some bad habits. One of them picks his nose when he drives, another feels the overwhelming need to sing to whatever song is on the radio, not that that is real bad, but the guy can't sing and he has some bad breath. The third carpool budy tells me that he has something called "irritable bowel syndrome" and he tells me all about his malady, in detail. (Whenever his syndrome is acting acting up everybody in the car "nose" it.) For the love of God I hope that this war is about oil. I can't carpool much longer. I'm going to have to invest in a bicycle and I'm not into peddling the eight miles to work. But, it is better than experiencing "Irritable Bowel Syndrome" second hand. Wesley Mills is a full time student and writing instructor at Empire State College in Rochester N.Y. He also does freelance editing and writing and has his own company, "Writng Resources" which helps writers of all genres to write better and also does "book doctoring" and editing of all types. Email Wesley Mills: wmills1@rochester.rr.com ------------ Comment on this column in the forum. ------------ |
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