"Blood for Oil" -- It's true!

Rep. Dan Lundgren recently sent out a remarkable mailer to his constituents. In a mass-mailer response to those who'd criticized him for voting to open up ANWR for oil drilling, Lundgren's letter argues,

“I feel quite strongly that as long as we have our military in the Middle East fighting so that we can continue to purchase oil from that region, we have an obligation to find alternatives to foreign oil. It is difficult to justify the death of even one soldier when we are not doing everything in our power to explore options for oil within our country.”

Glad that's finally been clarified.

Oh, and speaking of the unholy mess that is Mess o'Potamia, the U.S. press attention given to the "smoking memo" that seriously damaged Tony Blair's party in Parliament yesterday? Zero...er...check that...One