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Satire: Bush Comes Clean On War: "Of Course I Invaded Iraq For The Oil"

Written by Adam Ash
Published March 29, 2006

President Bush has been making a series of speeches to the country lately about Iraq to jack up his approval rating, and he appears to have succeeded with his latest tactic: honesty.

Vowing to become "the honest president," George W. Bush spoke yesterday about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, after his father had tried it already, but unlike Bush Jr, ducked out before he got into real trouble.

"My father invaded Iraq, and what did he get? Praise from all over the world for his statesmanship, and then he goes and loses his bid for a second term. He did it all wrong. He stopped the war BEFORE his second-term election. If he were still fighting the war DURING the election, he would've won. The point about a war is not to win the war, but to win your reelection.

"That's what I did, and I succeeded. But now that I got reelected, why haven't I stopped this war? After all, we didn't find any WMD, and there was no connection between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein.

"But let's be honest, that's not why I started the war with Iraq. Not at all. That's what I said at the time, I know. But listen.

"Read my lips. I'm going to be totally honest with you. I invaded Iraq because Iraq has a lot of oil. Their oilfields haven't been fully exploited yet, and I didn't want to leave it up to a bunch of towelheads to do that. I'm a Texas oilman, and this is a job for Texas oilmen. We know how to get at that oil and get it out of the ground, and we know how to keep prices high so we can make a lot of money out of our oil-addicted fellow Americans. That's the honest truth.

"OK, so I lied a little. I said Saddam had WMD and there could be a mushroom cloud over an American city if we didn't fight terrorism in Iraq. But heck, if I'd said back then that I wanted to invade Iraq for its oil, people would've started in on Texas and our oilmen with all sorts of crabby comments. I don't like Texas being criticized, so I dreamed up the whole WMD business.

"Listen, I didn't expect the whole country to fall for it — only enough red-state folks to make an invasion credible.

"Is it my fault everybody's so stupid they bought the WMD bullshit — when it's plain as day to anybody with half a brain that we went in there for the oil? What other reason could there possibly be? If Iraq's main export was artichokes, do you think I would've invaded it?

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Satire: Bush Comes Clean On War: "Of Course I Invaded Iraq For The Oil"
Published: March 29, 2006
Type: Satire
Section: Politics
Filed Under: Politics: Government, Politics: U.S., Politics: War and Terrorism
Writer: Adam Ash
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#1 — March 29, 2006 @ 16:21PM — Arch Conservative

AWWWW Adam......... your stupid little post has been up all day and no one has bothered commenting on it.

#2 — March 29, 2006 @ 16:33PM — adam [URL]

I guess I should've written it as a "serious" article, which it is in the guise of a satire. I might just do that next week, to see what people say. But thanks for coming back to it twice, Arch Conservative.

#3 — March 30, 2006 @ 02:32AM — Hoggle [URL]

I like.

But don't expect your American readers to get it, most of them don't understand satire. It's a British thing.

#4 — March 30, 2006 @ 08:10AM — Jet in Columbus

Nicely done Adam, but don't expect people like the arch Con to have a sense of humor about their "God-King"

...but of course that's only my opinion

#5 — March 31, 2006 @ 19:59PM — Earl`

That would explain why gas is 2.50 per gallon?

You have absolutely no economic training.

Get real dude. You are an emotional basket case.

It is all speculation.... and it's flippin' killing any raise I've had for over 2 years.

#6 — March 31, 2006 @ 21:23PM — Jet in Columbus

You forget one important item; Bush can't take advantage of those reserves, because if he did, he'd be admitting that Arch Liberals were right in accusing him of that being one of his motives.

Fear not. I bet it's being pumped into huge storage tanks in Texas right now, and being held in reserve for his oil buddies to sell later when gas hits $5 a gallon.

But of course that's only my opinion

#7 — April 1, 2006 @ 19:29PM — Mark Schannon [URL]

There should be hundreds of comments lauding you with kudos for one of the best satires I've read in ages. Absolutely brilliant...if it weren't true, I'd really be laughing.

Great job.

In Jameson Veritas

#8 — April 1, 2006 @ 21:00PM — MCH

Spot on, Adam.

Perhaps next ol' G-Dub will fess up to where he disappeared to the last 18 months of his Guard duty...

#9 — April 1, 2006 @ 21:07PM — Jet in Columbus [URL]

Yeah, right. And then he'll admit what was going through his head September 11th for those seven minutes after Card told him clearly that the country was under attack, and was being shown live on television, while he just sat there like a BOOB instead of running somewhere to coordinate the defense of his country!

I'll hold my breath...

#10 — April 1, 2006 @ 22:51PM — Earl

So, tell me... where is the savings at the pump?

Are we pumping Iraqi oil yet?

Is Iraq pumping oil yet?

Hmmm. I smell Bull hooey and its eminating from this article.

#11 — April 1, 2006 @ 22:53PM — Jet in Columbus [URL]

Nope, but if you get your head out of your ass and try again...

#12 — April 2, 2006 @ 19:45PM — Joey

Jet in #9 stated
"Yeah, right. And then he'll admit what was going through his head September 11th for those seven minutes after Card told him clearly that the country was under attack, and was being shown live on television, while he just sat there like a BOOB instead of running somewhere to coordinate the defense of his country"

Like the President is supposed to run around like a chicken with its head cut off solving a crises that JUST occured, without any knowledge, reports, intel etc...

Wow... Dr. Strangelove would have launched a full scale nuclear response. Is that what you are alluding too? Is that what the "correct" response would have been? Get real. Government, business, 911 centers etc... don't run their operations like that, why should the President.

How far was AF1? How far was the President's able communications detachment. Do you think perhaps he might have had a few moments to gather some data and get a FULL REPORT?

You are simple minded to thing that the President really takes that kind of action. There thousands and thousands of people around him and within the government who were reacting. That's what they get paid for. The President HAS to wait for information. Which WAS forthcoming.

Grow up.

#13 — April 2, 2006 @ 22:38PM — Jet in Columbus [URL]

"Joey says "Like the President is supposed to run around like a chicken with its head cut off solving a crises that JUST occured, without any knowledge, reports, intel etc... "

Of course not, how could I be so feeble minded. IT WAS JUST HAPPENING THERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM ON LIVE TELEVISION!!!

If any NORMAL person had someone walk up to him and tell him his house was on fire, would he wait for confirmation from one of the kids??? before he got up off his ass and turned of the TV, or would he just sit there watching Pat Robertson?

If Clinton had done the same thing you'd be all over him calling him all kinds of "FEEBLE MINDED" names, and you know it, YOU ---personal attack deleted---uneducated-closed minded-hypocrite.

Anyone with any BALLS would've walked immediately to the hall and used his cell phone, or the one in his limo, but he'd have been on it immediately. I bet your admitting to yourself right now that Bush would be stupid enough not to think of those things and probably would wait till he got to Air Force One, wouldn't he?

AND YOU KNOW IT

Isn't it always the way that any feeble minded jerk can validate any argument he can't substantiate with the phrase "Grow up" at the end of it.

I truly feel sorry for you Joey


...but that's only my opinion

#14 — April 2, 2006 @ 23:39PM — SonnyD

Jet: Let's see now. Sept. 11th -- A plane struck the WTC. Everyone thought it was an accident. Not until the second plane did anyone think it was anything but an accident. Now exactly what information did Card have when he notified the president? Nobody knew what was going on. What, exactly, did he say to the president in that brief whispered message - in front of a group of children who may have overheard him?

You are just so much in the habit of looking for an excuse to criticize Bush that you don't care whether there is any common sense in what you are saying.

I'd be willing to bet you have been repeating every negative comment you have ever heard about Bush ever since the 2000 election. I've heard the same tired, worn out lines over and over.

If you really feel the need to criticize, couldn't you come up with some original thought of your own? Or, at least, rephrase the lines you heard someone else say so that you don't sound like a tape loop?

#15 — April 3, 2006 @ 00:10AM — Jet in Columbus [URL]

Mr. Card said, "Mr. President the country is under attack"

Yeah, I can see how that might be misconstrued

#16 — April 3, 2006 @ 00:44AM — MCH

Here's what Card really whispered:

"Mr. President, what the hell does putting food on your family supposed to mean?"

#17 — April 3, 2006 @ 01:20AM — Jet in Columbus [URL]

MCH 16, sounds like something kinky to me, but I wouldn't really know about stuff like that.

#18 — April 5, 2006 @ 11:14AM — Jon Sobel [URL]

Well, this is darn good satire, I must say.

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