there is a guy at the fair who could guess your weight. i was fascinated. as a five, ten-year-old. and if you didn t get it right, you won a doll or whatever. in the middle east people can guess your power from 100 paces. they have to. that s how they survive. and if we look weak, vis-a-vis our closest ally in the region that will have regional implications. let s talk about this country and what s going on here. you said to me over the weekend you re going to be spending more time looking at america, because there s so much going on at this time. let s share with our audience what david had to say recently about the political climate. in a sensible country obama would be able to clearly define his modern brand of moderate progressivism without fear of offending the people he needs to get legislation passed. but we don t live in that country. we live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which they only talk to members of their own party and read blogs of t
on that one, the administration emphatically said this was not about oil. and we thought right from the beginning but it was about how we would share oil revenue and it would help offset the cost of the war. tom, with all due respect that was not the policy of our government that we were going to go into iraq and take their resource in order to pay for the cost of the war. but it would be part of the consequence of getting the country stabilized. part of the consequence would be that saddam hussein who used the oil market to manipulate the oil market, deny supplies to the west would no longer be in the position to do that. somehow the administration had as its policy we re going to go in and take their resource and pay for the war i didn t say that. i said there would be an oil sharing and the revenue from that would help offset the cost of the war. i didn t stay it was a principle factor but part of the larger scheme. we re going to disagree. let s talk about the ins