The Absurd Report

Recently, I had dinner with Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, and one of the other guests asked the Prince an interesting question. The guest was a prominent Georgia Democrat and he wondered aloud “why the Republicans didn’t just admit that the war in Iraq was all about oil?”

I sat back, so as not to interrupt the gentleman, and then asked the Prince a question of my own: “Keeping in mind the strength of al Qaeda in Iraq today, and their relationship with Syria and Iran. What would it mean to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia if the United States prematurely withdrew its troops from Iraq and their government was to fall leaving the nation’s oil wealth in the hands of al Qaeda?” Prince Turki then looked me in the eye and said, “It would not be good. The United States must stay in Iraq.” Today, when we ask the question, “why must the United States keep our troops in Iraq?” The answer to that question is: “oil” and who controls that energy resource.

Those calling for the United States to withdraw troops from Iraq have a very short memory of just how Saddam Hussein used his vast oil profits. Iraq’s oil wealth was routinely used to purchase chemical weapons of mass destruction, which he used against his own people in Iraq’s Kurdish north.

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