On the House floor Tuesday while debating the president's energy bill,
senior Republicans openly admitted that the war in Iraq is about oil.
Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee, said the nation needed to pass massive tax cuts for oil
companies "instead of constantly fighting over battlefields to defend
other people's energy supplies that we depend upon." Similarly, Rep.
Ralph Hall (R-TX) said, "When we look at this [energy] bill, we need to
call upon ourselves and ask ourselves what probably is the major duty
of a Member of Congress. It is probably to prevent a war. And how do
you prevent wars? You prevent wars by removing the cause of wars...
Lack of energy causes wars ." He said, "George Bush's father sent
450,000 kids to a desert; that was a battle for energy [to] keep them
from getting a bad man's, Saddam Hussein, foot, on half the known
energy resources in the world." [more]
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