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Perino challenged on claim that al Qaeda could control Iraq’s oil

BTC News contributor Eric Brewer, now reporting from the White House for online magazine Raw story, challenged Bush press secretary Dana Perino on the president’s claim that al Qaeda in Iraq might one day appropriate Iraq’s oil and use the funds for their own purposes.

This isn’t a new claim—Bush has made it before, as long ago as August of 2005, when he told an adoring audience at San Diego’s Coronado Air Station that if bin Laden and the now-deceased Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi somehow managed to gain control of Iraq, “they’d seize oil fields to fund their ambitions.” What’s new is that someone stood up in a White House briefing and called “bullshit” on the implication that a relative handful of extremists could gain and maintain control of Iraq’s oil production facilities and then sell the oil on the world market.

The ensuing train wreck makes me extremely proud to be the one responsible for first getting Brewer into the White House nearly three years ago. Perino was reduced to simply denying that Bush said what he said, or that he meant what he said.

Read Brewer’s report here, and see the video here.

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2 Responses to “Perino challenged on claim that al Qaeda could control Iraq’s oil”

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    Joseph Conrad Says:

    BUSH is such an ignorant man and so devoid of Honor and Integrity at this point in his tenure as THIEF PRESIDENT, it’s a wonder he has totally DEGENERATED into a 197% BLATANT ACHOHOLIC…

    HE IS A PROFOUND DISGRACE TO HIS OFFICE & THIS NATION…

    March 20th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
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    opit Says:

    That’s so pathetic it’s a wonder I don’t hurt myself sniggering. That until the thought occurs that al Qaeda worked with the CIA in Afghanistan during the Soviet thing and even now does black ops trying to overthrow the mullahs in Iran – on the CIA ticket.
    Wonders may never cease.

    March 28th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

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