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Am I the only one to whom this does not make sense?

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Apr 11, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The House on Thursday night endorsed opening part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, setting up a likely confrontation with the Senate as Congress works to complete a comprehensive energy bill.
Opening a 2,000-acre slice of the 1.5 million acre Alaskan refuge is a high-profile feature of the Bush administration's energy policy that aims to bolster domestic energy supplies as a means of reducing the nation's addiction to foreign oil.
"ANWR oil is obviously a critical component of any viable energy policy and it is exemplary that the House realizes this," said Roger Herrera, a consultant for the pro-drilling group Arctic Power. "It is appropriate that this decision is reached at a time when our armed forces are freeing Iraq and making us more secure," he said.
"American oil in American jet fighters makes eminent sense."

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So let's destroy a long-term, self sustaining resource to exploit a short-term benefit. And of course, liberating Iraq has definitely made us more secure. And that's why we need to do the former, to accomplish the latter.

Oh the rhetoric.

Cambridge, April 11 2003

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