Originally Posted by Rochard

This is a most interesting post.

It's not secret that Bush enjoys the lowest popularity rating of any recent president. Everyone is complaining about how we are still in Iraq. I don't think Bush ever intended in leaving Iraq - and maybe he's smarter than all of us think.

In the 1980s when Iraq invaded Iran, the ships in the Persian Gulf carrying our oil came under attack by Iran. The US military had to step in to "protect shipping in the Gulf". (It's also a little known fact that the US pretty much dstroyed Iran's navy in less than a week.)

Twenty years from now when the oil starts running out, when it becomes harder to find and more expensive to pull out of the ground, we could see WWIII. We'll be fighting all of the other countries who need the same oil we do. China will be involved, and make no mistake they are in fact a world power (and huge!). Japan too will be involved; They've already gone to war with us over oil in WWII.

The Middle East will be the battlefront.

Hopefully by then we'll still have a huge presence in the Middle East. And only then will we look at President Bush and his crowd in a different light.