Now China is *going to* drill off the Cuban coast (it's back!!!)

[underpants]

Giuliani Resurrects Cuba-China Drilling Myth By Changing His Verbs To The Future Tense

Six weeks ago, Rudy Giuliani warned Glenn Beck that, “in essence, we have China drilling for American oil,” just off the coast of Florida. It was a line conservatives used for weeks — the ghastly specter of China drilling for oil “45 miles from the Florida keys,” “closer to the United States” than American companies — as justification for opening up new offshore areas to American drilling.

The claim, however, was proved completely and utterly false, and leading conservatives declared the myth no longer a “talking point.” Undeterred, Giuliani hid behind the future tense this morning on Fox and Friends, warning that “the Chinese are going to be able to drill off the shore of Florida” some day in the imagined future:

The Chinese are going to be able to drill off the shore of Florida, in an area where America can’t drill. We’ve prohibited ourselves from drilling. This is absurd, isn’t it? … How can you be against offshore drilling when the Chinese are going to drill off the shore of Florida? Do you think they’re going to be more environmentally sound than we would be? I mean, this makes no sense.

VIDEO at the link


History here
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/underpants/120

[liberal N proud]

1. The oil thugs are not going to quit until they have destroyed

the white sand beaches of Florida's Gulf Coast.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. So does that mean McCain's senior political adviser will leave the campaign to go lobby for the

Chinese oil company again?

[dflprincess]

3. Instead of using this fairy tale as a "justification for opening up new offshore areas"

how about using it for changing our policy toward Cuba?

And what's this drilling for "American oil" crap? Do our territorial waters extend 45 miles off shore?

[nykym]

4. If we as a nation

don't stop borrowing money from China, they will be able to drill anywhere because they will own us. And thet includes Rudi's backyard!

[Deja Q]

5. Slant drilling; isn't that why the world defended Kuwait and put Iraq in its place in 1990?