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Chevron, total, royal dutch shell and others. he's moving out. if these projections, and i'm sure they will be, anything like what the geologists are telling us, this is going to be the new saudi arabia. if we got anything out of this, it was the opening up of this new saudi arabia for the world's oil markets. and i've said all along the reason dick cheney wanted this war had nothing to do with wmd or al qaeda or freedom and democracy and had everything to do with oil. >> so american soldiers and iraqi civilians died for oil? to get put on the open market? >> yeah, i'm a soldier, ed. i made co...

Energy task force for the president, had been more transparent with the american people about this and had given them an opportunity to say yes or no about sending our young men and women to die for oil. >> but it was wmd. it was on a lie. we were not 45 minutes from a mushroom cloud. but to sell the american people on this, to get our mitts on the oil, this was the sell job that had to be done, fair enough? >> this wouldn't be the first war, ed, and you know that. >> here's senator lindsey graham, again, talking about troop withdrawal. here it is. >> not being able to close the deal in iraq i...

Talkshow host and fox news contributor. so that was trunka, people should care that he talks to the white house every day and goes a couple of times a week. >> reporter: did you like that body language, just laying back, yeah, white house couple times a week, chit chatting with the president -- megyn: why do we care that richard trunka of afl-cio is that tight? >> reporter: in 2001, president bush called into being the energy task force and he named dick cheney the head of that task force. the left went crazy because cheney was running meetings behind closed doors and the left thought that the...

All the other oil companies he convened for his energy task force in secret before 9/11. old beltway common wisdom used to be you can't pass a new energy policy unless it's got more offshore oil drilling in it. that common wisdom is probably due for an upgrade too. we'll have more on the day in the gulf of mexico oil disaster coming up. [ female announcer ] it's red lobster's festival of shrimp... a chance to get everyone together for a night where everyone gets just what they want. combine two or three favorites, from new creations like crab-stuffed shrimp

>> they don't. >> how do you know who's supposed to win. >> the queen will have to ask one of these leaders to form a government. >> wait a second, the queen still has a role in government? >> yes. >> i thought she was just a tourist trap. >> the leader of the party that has the most seats has to go to the queen and ask permission to form a government. or the queen invites him and that may be, that may be difficult. because what if -- >> ma'am, may we form a government, please? >> it's actually -- >> please, please, mum. >> it's mom. >> mom -- we'd really like to govern for a while. >> okay. i...