Oil Vey
March 19, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Anyone who thinks the Iraq war was fought for cheap gas clearly hasn’t been seen the price at the pump — $4 a gallon and climbing. If this war was about oil, it certainly has been the worst war for oil ever. Particularly considering that oil was $25 a barrel when the war started five years ago.
But the charge has been a great source of comedy — quite a long-running joke; as long, in fact, as the war itself.
The site Politicalhumor,about.com has a wonderful round-up of jokes based on the blood-for-oil premise.
This one in particular shows how laughable the concept has been — from the beginning:
“On the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq gas prices in L.A. reached three dollars a gallon in some places. Didn’t we win that war? I mean, I know there were no weapons of mass destruction but apparently there’s no gas there either.” –Jay Leno
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