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Oil, Iraq and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Way Forward

I agree with Mr. Fitzsimmons. He is dead on in his analysis of the situation in Iraq. Bottom line: We need the oil. The problem: how are we going to stabilize the country enough to allow us to even purchase the oil from the Iraqis. However, I do think the Busch Administration knows this and knew this. Obama or Hillary are giving lip service. We can not simply pull out of Iraq. We have to stabilize the country in order to ever have a chance to get the Iraqi oil on the global market. The Democratic candidates know this, but are only telling the American people what they want to hear.

Mr. Fitzsimmons is correct that we just need to come clean and spell out why we went to Iraq in the first place. Let the Iraqis know it is their oil to sell to us, however, how to keep the Chinese from out bidding the US and driving oil costs even higher is another issue.