Name Your Price, Bin Laden

Think Progress dug up a 1998 Osama Bin Laden interview in which he claims the real price of oil should be $144 a a barrel. Heading into this weekend that actually was the price. At the time of the interview, ten years ago, the price of oil was $11 a barrel.

Of course, when we invade Iran, the price of a gallon of gas could be $11. We could not possibly give Bin Laden more if we tried. It's no wonder that we now have a large movement of people cutting across the ideological spectrum who believe that we did try to give him exactly what he wanted because those calling the shots here in America wanted the same thing.

Condoleezza Rice, the NSA who missed the intel community's 2001 warning about Bin Laden, openly admits how proud she is of their mistake. I wonder if she'll be proud when we repeat that mistake in Iran? Will she be proud when the straight of Hormuz is shut down and bin Laden is smiling from ear to rear when he sees how much oil costs then?

It is because of the obvious mistakes Bush made allowing the current state of affairs to unfold that the American people hate him like poison. So much so that Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher would go so far as to say Bush "should stay home from the Republican convention, and everybody would be better off." Thanks, Rohrabacher, maybe you should have told him that in 1998 and maybe things would not have worked out so well for Bin Laden.

By the way something, Bush showing his face on Thomas Jefferson's turf on the 4th of July was just despicable, and there were people there to tell him so.