Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

George W. Bush never met a diplomatic effort that he could not turn into pure disaster. Today, the price of crude oil hit $73.10 per barrel, thanks to Bush’s ham-handed efforts to push the Iranians into war.

Last week, the Bush White House actually openly admitted that it only made the offer to talk to the Iranians after their cessation of uranium refinement in the hopes that it would provoke the Iranian government to become more angry and reject the deal, thus heightening tensions. I’m not kidding – the Bush Republicans say that this was what they wanted all along!

So, now the Iranians are threatening to turn off the spigot through which flows 25 percent of the oil used by humanity, and the oil prices are shooting upward at breakneck speed in anticipation.

All of us are going to be paying for President Bush’s purposeful sabotage of diplomacy. We are literally going to be paying for it – at the pump this summer.

More profits for the Bush family and its oil business friends, I suppose.