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John McCain at a town hall meeting today said, "My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East". On the surface this statement by McCain can be taken to mean that our young men and women are there to protect oil interests. Later in the day ,when challenged by the press, McCain trying to clarify his earlier hazy statement on war by declaring that he was talking about the first Iraqi War. "No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for several reasons," Mc Cain claimed. One reason he sighted was that Hussein had invaded Kuwait. Continuing to try to weasel his way out of the earlier statement Mc Cain blurted out the truth. "But also we didn't want him to have control over the oil, and that part of the world is critical to us because of our dependenc...

The 2006 Elections gave a majority to the Democrats in Congress, although a small majority, it is still a majority with Democrats holdings all the leadership positions in both the House and The Senate. Since the Election of 2006 this Democratic led Congress has not accomplished ANYTHING. The Leadership in the House has blocked all attempts by Committees that were looking into the corruption of this Administration and has stifled any Congressman who even mentioned impeachment. If we accept the premise that hearings, indictments and impeachments would have been destructive, then this should have left time for initiative, innovation, and leadership, however, this too has failed to materialize. Truman's Congress of the late 40's was nicknamed "The Do Nothing Congress", but I think that the 109 th Congress, the present Congress, has now made the 80 th Congress look like the most prolific Congress the US has ever seen. Exactly what has this Congress been working on? Durin...