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sherpafish
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posted 25 February 2003 10:15 AM      Profile for sherpafish   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
An email I recieved. Small tongue or large cheek?...


I keep hearing the anti-war protesters chant, "No blood for oil! No
blood
for oil!" But what they never seem to say is exactly how much oil we're
talking about. Don't you think that's pertinent information? Are we
talking
a gallon of oil for every 10 gallons of blood? Or is it more like 30
gallons
of oil for every pint of blood? Because if it's the latter, maybe a
blood-oil exchange would be a good idea.
In the first Gulf War, roughly 300 brave Americans lost their lives.
Assuming that each of these soldiers shed an average of eight pints of
blood, that works out to roughly a pint of American blood shed per 60
million barrels of Kuwaiti crude saved from the clutches of Saddam. If
you
ask me, that's a pretty darn good deal. If we can manage to swing a
similar
trade this time around, then I say, "Bombs away."
We should also know what kind of blood we're giving up. Is it
O-positive,
the universal donor? I'd be more reluctant to part with that than some
useless AB junk. If Bush and Rumsfeld spill, say, 100,000 gallons of
B-negative or AB-positive soldier blood for an equivalent amount of
primo
Mideast oil, that may be well worth considering.
So, you see, you can't argue in the abstract like those naïve protesters
on
college campuses are doing. You've got to look at the hard numbers if
you're
going to make an informed decision about a potential blood-for-oil swap.
Sending innocent young men and women into battle to die is the most
difficult decision a president can make. But it's that much easier when
you
know what you're getting in return. If I were Bush, I'd definitely do it
if
we could get the price of a gallon of Amoco Ultra Unleaded down to
$1.19.
Maybe even $1.21. Anything higher would give me pause. But $1.21 is a
great
price for a gallon. I would take a lot more weekend roadtrips if gas
were
that cheap. I might even upgrade to one of those Lincoln Navigators I've
been seeing ads for on TV. That's a beautiful car.
Nobody wants to see brave young Americans sent off to die. Nobody wants
to
see blood spilled for oil. But if it comes to that, wouldn't we all feel
better knowing that their blood was spilled for a great deal of oil? I
know
I sure would.


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sheep
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posted 25 February 2003 10:45 AM      Profile for sheep     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's from last week's Onion.
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