Yesterday on ABC’s This Week roundtable, Ted Koppel said
the U.S. needs to stay in Iraq because of the “huge amount
of oil and natural gas there”:
KOPPEL: U.S. troops are in a part of the world that produces
a huge amount of oil and natural gas. We will have U.S. troops
in that region for years to come, whether we want to or not. …
And with the price of oil going up to a 4.5 dollars a gallon,
imagine what would happen to the price of oil if we precipitously
pull troops out of the Persian Gulf. It’s not going to happen.
Watch it:
Koppel also suggested that the U.S. stay in Iraq to contain Iran.
“You talked a little bit about Iran, and the dangers of
Iran. This is not a time to say we’re going to pull all
the U.S. troops out of there,” he said.
