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In reply to the discussion: "We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen ..." [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Knowing that he was going to lose the war, and believing that the US would come and physically remove him from power, Saddam ordered that the oil fields be set on fire. If he wasn't going to control Iraq, then there would be no Iraq to control, he'd destroy it instead (Ironically, he was wrong, the US didn't come for him until Bush's failed Iraq war #2).
That's what the GOP is doing now. These crazy right wing nut jobs understand that their time is almost up. The demographics and attitudes of Americans are evolving away from the insane GOP.
And if they can't govern the United States, which is their God given right, then no one should be allowed to do so.
Their final act is going to be a murder suicide.
It will probably take a few years to get rid of them, and so they are going to use the time that remains to make as big a mess as possible. Destroy as much as possible.
They are lighting the oil fields on fire.