It is going to be interesting to see the fallout from the president's speech today from Latvia. Let the drama begin. I can imagine some of the people listening to that speech have probably walked out. What he is saying is if we leave Iraq it will cause the Sunni and Shiite to pursue their agenda. If we don’t leave they will still pursue it. Would you not want to see if you can spare lives by withdrawing instead of staying where there will be guaranteed loss of life? And in his speech he mentioned oil would be used to blackmail the U.S. and the rest of the free world. Now we get to the real issue at hand. It’s the oil stupid.

He states Al-Qaeda is responsible for the problems in Iraq. Now Al-Qaeda is a Sunni group. Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims are divided and have been divided for generations before all of this began. They are in a struggle with each other for control in Iraq. What triggered this current barrage of fighting was the bombing of the Al-Askariya mosque . What does that have to do with the U.S.? That is between the Sunni and Shiite not the US. The US is on the sideline. The Sunni Muslims are outnumbered by the Shiite Muslims so his reasoning for staying the course does not make sense. Why and how can it be that the Sunnis are responsible for what is going on when they are outnumbered? And why would he blame the Sunnis when it is clear that the definite threat is with the Shiite since it is more in that camp throughout the entire Middle East including the main enemy Iran? It’s the oil. Reading between the lines what he is really saying is whoever gains control in Iraq whether it is Sunni or Shiite they will control the oil. So the agenda here is the US wants to have control of Iraq through a government there that will be linked to our government which would guarantee an uninterrupted flow of oil. So we use Al-Qaeda as our way into Iraq.