" Had Bush done things right with Shock and Awe, we'd been outtat there within the year and oil would be five bucks for 3 barrels, and "please don't come back".

True on exit of Iraq. What he should have done was not waste the money in the first place, but at least just do a St. Bill, bomb the crap out of them, and tell them to be good and not sign oil contracts with France, Russia, and China.

As for oil, it would still be high from deficit spending and weak Dollar. Lot of the causes of oil's spike, like wheat and corn's, came from things outside the stupidest military Blunder ever committed by an American president. Little George's tax deferments and Greenspan's ratecuts were a whole different thread of incompetence, independent of Little George's Oedipal issues and need to prove his milittary manhood, brought into question by his own past.