If it’s not about oil, then prove it

Thank you. I was quite pleased to see John Custer’s Jan. 4 guest commentary “War is much too high a price for oil.”

I doubt that there is a citizen in this country who doesn’t dispute that our nation’s security should be a top priority for our government, and as Mr. Custer says, “reduce vulnerability to attack …” But a large majority of us believe this move towards war is mostly over Mr. Bush positioning himself for re-election (no president in the middle of war has ever not been re-elected) and for oil. Security and vulnerability are just easily convincing political spins.

Toppling the leaders of other countries is not the role of the U.S. – that is for the U.N. to decide. And, obviously there are plenty of other “bad” leaders in the world that we aren’t paying much attention to. We (the U.S.) only seem to be obsessed with Saddam Hussein. Why is that?

I have a solution to let the Bush administration prove me and anyone else that believes as I do, wrong. Go ahead and topple Saddam Hussein. Go to war if you feel you must. But after all the glamour of spilling blood is over, resolve that this country will not import one drop of Iraqi oil for the next decade. This will serve two purposes. First of all, it will prove to the world that oil was not our reason for war and, secondly, it will cripple Saddam’s economy to the point that he will have to change or give up his leadership in order to save his country.

How about it Dubyah? Prove me wrong.

Marysville