Admin.: About That Whole "Addicted To Oil" Thing... We Didn't Really Mean To Mention The Middle East... [from Arianna Huffington's Website]

One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally.

What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.

Another Article Snippet:

Asked why the president used the words "the Middle East" when he didn't really mean them, one administration official said Bush wanted to dramatize the issue in a way that "every American sitting out there listening to the speech understands." The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he feared that his remarks might get him in trouble.


http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/13767738.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_nation


Anyone recall the famous 16 words in the 2003 SOTU that then-director of the CIA George Tenet said shouldln't have been included. Funny how "mistakes" just keep on finding their way into Bush's primetime addresses.

:rolleyes:

Ideally, the entire civilized world should not buy middle east oil, or the civilized world should simply go in there and take it. But since Bush is conforming to the free market system, this should clear up confusion on the issue.

He said the broad goal was to displace foreign oil imports, from anywhere, with domestic alternatives. He acknowledged that oil is a freely traded commodity bought and sold globally by private firms. Consequently, it would be very difficult to reduce imports from any single region, especially the most oil-rich region on Earth.

So Huffington is making much ado about nothing.

I don't think that many people actually take the President seriously enough to point out his mistakes, lies, nonsense, and so on. Listening to one of his "speeches" is like watching a beer commercial.

Ideally, the entire civilized world should not buy middle east oil, or the civilized world should simply go in there and take it. But since Bush is conforming to the free market system, this should clear up confusion on the issue.

He said the broad goal was to displace foreign oil imports, from anywhere, with domestic alternatives. He acknowledged that oil is a freely traded commodity bought and sold globally by private firms. Consequently, it would be very difficult to reduce imports from any single region, especially the most oil-rich region on Earth.

So Huffington is making much ado about nothing.

The prez still misled (or misspoke) according to his own staffers. Just pointing that out.

The prez still misled (or misspoke) according to his own staffers. Just pointing that out.Considering that Bush will only be in office until 2008, a statement concerning 2025 is meaningless and hardly worth starting a thread over. Are you really that bored and is this all you could find in his speech to complain about?

I don't know what to think about anything anymore .:confused: I have chnged my mind too much already . Bush is lucky to have others watching over him .

I have so many conspricies flowing through my head , I 'm a walkng think tank . Much more imput could be desastrous .