ads without products: wwiii +$78.35 = mission accomplished:
Well, we’re paying three bucks a gallon. ExxonMobil is collecting $3 a gallon. There’s a chapter called “Trillion-Dollar Babies.” When Bush came in, we had oil as low as $18 a barrel. It was like water. Bush has successfully built up the price of oil from 18 bucks a barrel to over $70 a barrel. That’s the “mission accomplished.” He didn’t make a mistake here. That’s the “mission accomplished.”
A complicated theory but just complicated enough to a. make sense and b. be too complex to relate in the 30 seconds allotted to headline news stories.
Now of course when the Middle East implodes with 100,000+ US troops stuck in Iraq, unable to leave and unavailable for other objectives, we could be in for some interesting times. From the simple act of ejecting the Taliban and liberating Afghanistan, the corps of ineptitude has managed to reopen hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, empower Iran, and embolden North Korea. Nice work.