Was It all Because Of The 710?

If it was I don't know how the oil companies will manage to operate when the last wheel falls off.

There are people in Washington ... who never intend to withdraw military forces from Iraq and they're looking for 10, 20, 50 years in the future ... the reason that we went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base in the Gulf region, and I have never heard any of our leaders say that they would commit themselves to the Iraqi people that 10 years from now there will be no military bases of the United States in Iraq.

-- former President Jimmy Carter, Feb. 3, 2006 more