Rove on Faux news: Getting out of Iraq would drive oil prices to $200

[Ichingcarpenter]

This morning on Fox News Sunday, former White House adviser Karl Rove claimed that redeployment from Iraq would cause oil prices to shoot to $200 a barrel:

" If we were to give up Iraq with the third largest oil reserves in the world to the control of an Al Qaida regime or to the control of Iran, don’t you think $200 a barrel oil would have a cost to the American economy?"


Before we invaded oil was a $36 and now is $103

http://thinkprogress.org/

[dweller]

1. it's always been about the oil. n/t

dp

[Rosemary2205]

2. Lie fear lie fear lie fear lie fear lie fear

Gawd the Fox crowd is idiotic. Seriously, can we deport them to someplace else?

[annabanana]

3. OR

maybe they would flood the market .. drive down the price of oil.. destroy the power of the oil barons (ALL of them) and really stir the pot...

[yourout]

What a bold faced lie.......I suspect it would have the opposite effect.

My guess is the Iraqis would dump as much oil on the market as they could to help pay for rebuilding things.

This is all contingent on the Iraqis having control of there own oil which I don't know for sure.

[Vanje]

14. Lower oil prices would be a disaster ....

for Rove's Texas and Saudi friends.

[RDANGELO]

4. Al Qaida has never been anywhere near strong enough to

control Iraq, and the Iraqis distrust Iran.

[Ghost Dog]

19. Yes. Call him out on the term "Al Qaida regime"

definitely.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Who didn't see this coming? Friends, we'll be in Iraq for 1000 years.

[Meddle]

6. The Same Old

We are constantly bombarded by this stream of lies from the American administration.

One is reminded of the quotations of Hitler: "How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."

or perhaps

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."

Either one is more than applicable.

[Hydra]

7. Rove sent in to scare people into submission

:spray:

Too bad people actually listen to these clowns.

[lpbk2713]

8. Fear & Hysterics, they never change.

It has always worked for them before so why should they change?

[Deja Q]

9. How's offshoring helping America?

That tangent aside, it IS true that if we left, Iran would size up Iraq faster than you can sneeze. And that would probably destroy the global economy, long before we perfect alternative transport technologies, period.

[Nitrogenica]

10. Oil is the tie that binds us to Iraq, but we must be fair to the Iraqi

people, not "take control" of the oil.

I think the right President could help America and Iraq with that oil.

The wrong President is this guy.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Thats what he and Bush wanted in the first place....dumb ass

[hlthe2b]

12. Will someone just toss him into a piranha pool?

Of course, they might just welcome him as one of their own....:eyes:

[wtmusic]

13. "If we were to give up Iraq."

Didn't know it was ours to give up, Karl.

:grr:

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. Nice catch

If Rove says something it is the opposite
also he worked on Lieberman's campaign in 2006 and admitted it.

[FormerDittoHead]

15. Rove reveals "the big lie" about Iraq. It IS and always WAS about the oil... n/t

[EarlG]

16. Ah, another fine prediction to add to the list

File it alongside http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/19/bartlett-caught-in-lie">this one by Laurence Lindsey, Bush's senior economic adviser in 2002:

As for the impact of a war with Iraq, "It depends how the war goes." But he quickly adds that that "Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits that would come from a successful prosecution of the war."

"The key issue is oil, and a regime change in Iraq would facilitate an increase in world oil," which would drive down oil prices, giving the U.S. economy an added boost.

[cornermouse]

17. It's going to go there anyway.

We might as well save some American lives by leaving.

[DemoTex]

20. Methinks Rove just trotted out a major GOP 2008 talking point.

God, I hope they use it!

[tanyev]

21. So how many troops per gallon is it costing us now, Karl?