JONATHAN TURLEY
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.
After a stint at Tulane Law School, Professor Turley joined the George Washington faculty in 1990 and, in 1998, was given the prestigious Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law, the youngest chaired professor in the school’s history. In addition to his extensive publications, Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, judges, members of Congress, and a wide range of other clients. He is also one of the few attorneys to successfully challenge both a federal and a state law — leading to courts striking down the federal Elizabeth Morgan law as well as the state criminalization of cohabitation.
In 2010, Professor Turley represented Judge G. Thomas Porteous in his impeachment trial. After a trial before the Senate, Professor Turley (on December 7, 2010) argued both the motions and gave the final argument to all 100 U.S. Senators from the well of the Senate floor — only the 14th time in history of the country that such a trial of a judge has reached the Senate floor. Judge Porteous was convicted of four articles of impeachments, including the acceptance of $2000 from an attorney and using a false name on a bankruptcy filing.
In 2011, Professor Turley filed a challenge to the Libyan War on behalf of ten members of Congress, including Representatives Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md); Dan Burton (R., Ind.); Mike Capuano (D., Mass.); Howard Coble (R., N.C.); John Conyers (D., Mich.); John J. Duncan (R., Tenn.); Tim Johnson (R., Ill.); Walter Jones (R., N.C.); Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio); and Ron Paul (R., Tx). The lawsuit was before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
In November 2014, Turley agreed to serve as lead counsel to the United States House of Representatives in its constitutional challenge to changes ordered by President Obama to the Affordable Care Act. The litigation was approved by the House of Representatives to seek judicial review of the claims under the separation of powers. On May 12, 2016, the federal court handed down a historic victory for the House and ruled that the Obama Administration violated the separation of powers in ordering billions to be paid to insurance companies without an appropriation of Congress.
Other cases include his representation of the Area 51 workers at a secret air base in Nevada; the nuclear couriers at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the Rocky Flats grand jury in Colorado; Dr. Eric Foretich, the husband in the famous Elizabeth Morgan custody controversy; and four former United States Attorneys General during the Clinton impeachment litigation. In the Foretich case, Turley succeeded recently in reversing a trial court and striking down a federal statute through a rare “bill of attainder” challenge. Professor Turley has also served as counsel in a variety of national security cases, including espionage cases like that of Jim Nicholson, the highest ranking CIA officer ever accused of espionage. Turley also served as lead defense counsel in the successful defense of Petty Officer Daniel King, who faced the death penalty for alleged spying for Russia. Turley also served as defense counsel in the case of Dr. Tom Butler, who is faced criminal charges dealing with the importation and handling of thirty vials of plague in Texas. He also served as counsel to Larry Hanauer, the House Intelligence Committee staffer accused of leaking a classified Presidential National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times. (Hanauer was cleared of all allegations).
Among his current cases, Professor Turley represents Dr. Ali Al-Timimi, who was convicted in Virginia in 2005 of violent speech against the United States. In 2020, the federal court found that there merit in the challenges raised by Professor Turley and his co-counsel Tom Huff. Accordingly, the judge ordered his release to protect him from Covit-19 while the Court prepared a decision on the challenges. Pursuant to a court order, Dr. Al-Timimi was released from the Supermax in Colorado and the two drove across the country so that he could be placed into home confinement. He also represented Dr. Sami Al-Arian, who was accused of being the American leader of a terrorist organization while he was a university professor in Florida. Turley represented Dr. Al-Arian for eight years, much of which was in a determined defense against an indictment for criminal contempt. The case centered on the alleged violation of a plea bargain by the Justice Department after Dr. Al-Arian was largely exonerated of terrorism charges in Tampa, Florida. On June 27, 2014, all charges were dropped against Dr. Al-Arian. He also represented pilots approaching or over the age of 60 in their challenge to the mandatory retirement age of the FAA. He also represented David Murphee Faulk, the whistleblower who disclosed abuses in the surveillance operations at NSA’s Fort Gordon facility in Georgia.
Professor Turley also agreed to serve as lead counsel representing the Brown family from the TLC “Sister Wives, a reality show on plural marriage or polygamy. On December 13, 2013, the federal court in Utah struck down the criminalization of polygamy — the first such decision in history — on free exercise and due process grounds. On September 26, 2014, the court also ruled in favor of the Browns under Section 1983 — giving them a clean sweep on all of the statutory and constitutional claims. In April 2015, a panel reversed the decision on standing grounds and that decision is now on appeal.
Professor Turley was also lead counsel in the World Bank protest case stemming from the mass arrest of people in 2002 by the federal and district governments during demonstrations of the IMF and World Bank. Turley and his co-lead counsel Dan Schwartz (and the law firm of Bryan Cave) were the first to file and represented student journalists arrested without probable cause. In April 2015, after 13 years of intense litigation, the case was settled for $2.8 million, including $115,000 for each arrestee — a record damage award in a case of this kind and over twice the amount of prior damages for individual protesters. The case also exposed government destruction and withholding of evidence as well as the admitted mass arrest of hundreds of people without probable cause.
Professor Turley also served as the legal expert in the review of polygamy laws in the British of Columbia (Canada) Supreme Court. In the latter case, he argued for the decriminalization of plural union and conjugal unions. In 2012, Turley also represented the makers of “Five Wives Vodka” (Ogden’s Own Distillery) in challenging an effective ban on the product in Idaho after officials declared the product to be offensive to Mormons. After opposing to the ban on free speech and other grounds, the state of Idaho issued a letter apologizing for public statements made by officials and lifting the ban on sale for “Five Wives Vodka.”
Turley has served as a consultant on homeland security and constitutional issues, including the Florida House of Representatives. He also served as the consultant to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives on the impeachment of Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá.
Professor Turley is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues as well as tort reform legislation. That testimony includes the confirmation hearings of Attorney General nominees Loretta Lynch and William Barr as well as Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Professor Turley is also a nationally recognized legal commentator. Professor Turley was ranked as 38th in the top 100 most cited “public intellectuals” in the recent study by Judge Richard Posner. Turley was also found to be the second most cited law professor in the country. He has been repeatedly ranked in the nation’s top 500 lawyers in annual surveys (including in the latest rankings by LawDragon) – one of only a handful of academics. In prior years, he was ranked as one of the nation’s top ten lawyers in military law cases as well as one of the top 40 lawyers under 40. He was also selected in the last five years as one of the 100 top Irish lawyers in the world. In 2016, he was ranked as one of the 100 most famous (past and present) law professors.
Professor Turley is one of only two academics to testify at both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings. In December 2019, Professor Turley was called as the one Republican witness in the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings. He appeared with three Democratic witnesses. Professor Turley disagreed with this fellow witnesses in opposing the proposed articles of impeachments on bribery, extortion, campaign finance violations or obstruction of justice. He argued that these alleged impeachable acts were at odds with controlling definitions of those crimes and that Congress has historically looked to the criminal code and cases for guidance on such allegations. The committee ultimately rejected those articles and adopted the only two articles that Professor Turley said could be legitimately advanced: abuse of power, obstruction of Congress. Chairman Jerrold Nadler even ended the hearing by quoting his position on abuse of power. However, Turley opposed impeachment on this record as incomplete and insufficient for submission to the Senate. He argued for the House to wait and complete the record by seeking to compel key witnesses like former National Security Adviser John Bolton. His testimony was later relied upon in the impeachment floor debate by various House members and he was cited by both the White House and House managers in their arguments before the United States Senate in the Trump impeachment trial, including videotaped remarks played at the trial.
Professor Turley’s articles on legal and policy issues appear regularly in national publications with hundreds of articles in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal. He is a columnist for USA Today and writes regularly for the Washington Post. In 2005, Turley was given the Columnist of the Year award for Single-Issue Advocacy for his columns on civil liberties by the Aspen Institute and the Week Magazine. Professor Turley also appears regularly as a legal expert on all of the major television networks. Since the 1990s, he has worked under contract as the on-air Legal Analyst for NBC News, CBS News, BBC and Fox News. Professor Turley has been a repeated guest on Sunday talk shows with over two-dozen appearances on Meet the Press, ABC This Week, Face the Nation, and Fox Sunday. Professor Turley has taught courses on constitutional law, constitutional criminal law, environmental law, litigation, and torts. He is the founder and executive director of the Project for Older Prisoners (POPS). His work with older prisoners has been honored in various states, including his selection as the 2011 recipient of the Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta Elder Justice Award at Fordham University.
His award-winning blog is routinely ranked as one of the most popular legal blogs by AVVO. His blog was selected as the top News/Analysis site in 2013, the top Legal Opinion Blog in 2011 as well as prior selections as the top Law Professor Blog and Legal Theory Blog. It was also ranked in the top 20 constitutional law blog in 2018. It has been regularly ranked by the ABA Journal in the top 100 blogs in the world. In 2012, Turley has selected as one of the top 20 legal experts on Twitter by Business Insider. In 2013, the ABA Journal inducted the Turley Blog into its Hall of Fame.
Professor Turley received his B.A. at the University of Chicago and his J.D. at Northwestern. In 2008, he was given an honorary Doctorate of Law from John Marshall Law School for his contributions to civil liberties and the public interest.
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ml writes: “Plus, the worst one–signing a Presidential Directive last May, 2007, giving himself Complete Control over all 3 branches of our government–you know, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches–giving him the power to cancel the 2008 presidential election and declare Martial Law–with ‘homeland’ Chertoff second in command, if there is a terrorist attack, or Suspicion of an attack.”
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martha, what are you doing here? I thought you left and went over to Fox news’ website or that you enlisted, so you could take the place of one of our troops, who then could come home from Iraq and be with his/her family.
FYI I’m 47 years old, and I’ve seen enough people like you to last me more than 100 lifetimes. Actually, you are quite funny, your blind loyalty to Bush is rather amusing. I wonder when was the last time you thought for yourself, instead of agreeing with whatever Bush says and does because he’s your president? There’s such a thing as ‘too much patriotism’.
Keep on writing bad thoughts about me–because I’m going to earn a lot of rewards in Heaven because of them. Yes, I believe in Heaven. And I believe that God sees and knows ALL, and he sees the “tree of bad fruit” that is the Bush administration, and “the bad fruit” which are Bush supporters, like you. You probably are a card-carrying member of the “Project for the New American Century” (PNAC)agenda.
Bush’s crimes? How about–Justice department choosing applicants based on their political views; Guantanamo Bay prison torture; illegally invading Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11; signing new legislation, then using the ‘signing statements’ so he can ignore the laws just passed; having people in his administration ignore subpoenas to testify, using that “executive priviledge” excuse; having KBR and Blackwater no-bid contractors sent to Iraq that are immune from any type of prosecution in Iraq; choosing people for departments in his Cabinet based on party loyalty, and not personal experience; and the first thing Bush did as president?–seal his daddy’s White House papers until 50 years after daddy dies, so none of us can find out what daddy did in the White House. Plus, the worst one–signing a Presidential Directive last May, 2007, giving himself Complete Control over all 3 branches of our government–you know, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches–giving him the power to cancel the 2008 presidential election and declare Martial Law–with ‘homeland’ Chertoff second in command, if there is a terrorist attack, or Suspicion of an attack. And etc, etc, etc… He must have signed Thousands of Presidential Directives, probably pardoning everyone he knows from any criminal prosecution (I don’t think he can get away with pardoning himself)to selling our country to the Highest bidder–right now, Saudi Arabia and China OWN almost half of our corporations. It will take Barack Obama a few years to even find out what else Bush has done to us…
martha:
“GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH!
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Well martha you got three out of four words correct.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH!
Mary Leon:
“Where was Bush when he went AWOL out of the National Guard in the 1960s for over a year? I bet if any other soldier did that, they would have been thrown in the brig for a year or two. Nice to have Daddy Bush’s money to pay off the National Guard so they will ‘conveniently’ lose Bush’s paperwork.”
More Dan Blather garbage. No doubt you believe a word processing software program was spirited back in time to create those “letters” Dan Blather & his informer tried to produce as factual. By the way, Larry Flynt the Penthouse Magazine scum, offered a million dollars to anyboby that could bring him proof about Bush being absent from the National Guard. He is still offering it.
“Oh, by the way, he’s YOUR president, NOT mine. He was ’selected’ by the Supreme Court in early 2001, even though Al Gore won the popular vote in Florida. So, for the past 7 years, I’ve had no president to admire.”
All the Supreme Court did was rule you could not change election laws AFTER the election. I am not surprised you are not informed. You appear to be a very young naive uninformed product of the public school system.
“If you’re so enamored of Bush, why aren’t you over fighting for him in Iraq? I mean, unless you have an excuse why you can’t enlist in one of the military branches, what are you doing wasting my and others’ time here, ‘copying and pasting’?”
I am sure Percy has served this country in a number of ways, including military. I find it shameful you would resort to such a “Keith Olbermann” style attack. And you wonder why Olbermann’s ratings are 1/3 Bill Oreilly’s?
“Oh, yeah, one more thing Percy. I thought that the United Nations mandate says the US has to leave Iraq by the end of this year, but Bush announced that he’s sending MORE troops into Iraq next year. Did he make a deal with al-Maliki, an ‘agreement’ that we’ll be in Iraq for years? How come he won’t tell US the people who will end up paying for this?”
How many years have we had troops in Germany? In South Korea? In Bosnia? Personally, anybody that has a brain knows it would be a huge benefit to have a contingent of American troops right alongside the worst trouble maker in the region – Iran.
“Lots of crimes are being committed by Bush and Cheney.”
Prove a single crime or SHUT UP.
“Those are two evil men; and you admire them. That says a lot about your character, Percy. Too bad you are on the LOSING side of History, by supporting the WORST president we’ve ever had.”
Harry Truman had the worst rating in history when he left office; now he is considered a great President once the lunatics got tired of bitching, moaning, and lying about him. History will look very favorably on President Bush. Already, foreign opinion of him is bouncing back. Popularity comes & goes, but I know this is too much for an obviously little girl to understand.
Isn’t it time for you nap?
suziq:
Yes, you are right about the political fighting. When I first posted here to Mr. Turley, I had told him that I submitted a suggestion to Barack Obama’s website that, should the need arise, that Mr. Turley would make a wonderful nomination to sit on the US Supreme Court.
The next thing I know, someone named russ started in on what I wrote, then came Percy, then martha h.
I would love to discuss when Mr. Turley appears on “Countdown” but I will not let someone tell lies about Bush and Cheney like it’s the truth; and I don’t like when someone posts something here, cutting and pasting from some other person’s writings to use as justification for their views.
I guess you can say I enjoy a good debate, but I will be the first to admit that I do NOT like any part of this White House administration, which in my opinion, is the Worst we’ve ever had in the history of our country. They have cheated, lied to us all and sent our military to fight in an invasion of a country that had Nothing to do with September 11, 2001.
I am praying that Barack Obama will be elected President this November and he will begin the investigation of war crimes and other illegal crimes against this administration.
The main reason I am doing this is because of all the Unnecessary deaths of our US troops and Innocent Iraqi citizens–all for a lie. This is inexcusable that this administration is allowing all this death and making us pay the bill, just so they can get hold of the oil in Iraq and Bush and Cheney, both oil men, can get good deals for their oil associates to make obscene profits.
I join the other posters who hold you in high regard!! I first heard you comment on Countdown. I, also, pay close attention when you or John Dean comment. I’ve seen the twinkle return to your eyes recently, as the DOJ scandal unfolded and bushco was called out for politicizing justice!! I am confident that you would point to lawbreakers in any political party, and am comforted by the thought of you teaching true bipartisanship to the up and coming law students.
And speaking of bipartisanship: I am really disappointed in the postings!! People, take your political party fights to another site. This site should be for people interested in law and reality.
Gee, I miss one day of posting messages here, and Percy acts like he got a wedgie over his head. LOL
Percy, why are you copying others’ words? Don’t you know you’re committing plagerism?
Oh, maybe you know the answer to this question–
Where was Bush when he went AWOL out of the National Guard in the 1960s for over a year? I bet if any other soldier did that, they would have been thrown in the brig for a year or two. Nice to have Daddy Bush’s money to pay off the National Guard so they will ‘conveniently’ lose Bush’s paperwork.
Oh, by the way, he’s YOUR president, NOT mine. He was ‘selected’ by the Supreme Court in early 2001, even though Al Gore won the popular vote in Florida. So, for the past 7 years, I’ve had no president to admire.
If you’re so enamored of Bush, why aren’t you over fighting for him in Iraq? I mean, unless you have an excuse why you can’t enlist in one of the military branches, what are you doing wasting my and others’ time here, ‘copying and pasting’?
Oh, yeah, one more thing Percy. I thought that the United Nations mandate says the US has to leave Iraq by the end of this year, but Bush announced that he’s sending MORE troops into Iraq next year. Did he make a deal with al-Maliki, an ‘agreement’ that we’ll be in Iraq for years? How come he won’t tell US the people who will end up paying for this?
Lots of crimes are being committed by Bush and Cheney. Those are two evil men; and you admire them. That says a lot about your character, Percy. Too bad you are on the LOSING side of History, by supporting the WORST president we’ve ever had.
oh oh. Two more under the Obama bus today:
Weasely Clark – THROWN UNDER THE BUS TODAY!
Moveon.org – THROWN UNDER THE BUS TODAY!
att: Mary Leon
You really need to get your news straight before running her and posting BS. It makes you look so childish.
Tonight Iraq indicated that reports oil contracts would be limited to five western countries on a no bid basis were incorrect.
Bids will be accepted for 8 months from 36 oil companies world wide. The only oil companies locked out where those that had executed “back door” lucrative contracts with Saddam that were to have been effective after the UN ended sanctions on Saddam. Guess which countries….Russia & France.
No contract will be awarded until March of 2009 after the new Iraqi Government has reviewed all applications and bids.
Sorry Mary Leon. Once again your blind hatred of a fine man & President, our President Bush, caused you to make an uninformed ass out of yourself, but that is typical of the one percenters here.
Percy:
I wouldn’t care how many companies were “qualified” to bid if I got to draw up the bid documents as the American companies did. Sounds like the little boys got caught with hands in the oil jar yesterday and had to back down for awhile ’til this blows over. Let’s wait and see before we condemn Mary Leon who is merely saying what the Arabs and most thinking people believe.
oh oh. Two more under the Obama bus today:
Weasely Clark – THROWN UNDER THE BUS TODAY!
Moveon.org – THROWN UNDER THE BUS TODAY!
att: Mary Leon
You really need to get your news straight before running her and posting BS. It makes you look so childish.
Tonight Iraq indicated that reports oil contracts would be limited to five western countries on a no bid basis were incorrect.
Bids will be accepted for 8 months from 36 oil companies world wide. The only oil companies locked out where those that had executed “back door” lucrative contracts with Saddam that were to have been effective after the UN ended sanctions on Saddam. Guess which countries….Russia & France.
No contract will be awarded until March of 2009 after the new Iraqi Government has reviewed all applications and bids.
Sorry Mary Leon. Once again your blind hatred of a fine man & President, our President Bush, caused you to make an uninformed ass out of yourself, but that is typical of the one percenters here.
Mary Leon you really need to get your news straight before running her and posting BS. It makes you look so childish.
Tonight Iraq indicated that reports oil contracts would be limited to five western countries on a no bid basis were incorrect.
Bids will be accepted for 8 months from 36 oil companies world wide. The only oil companies locked out where those that had executed “back door” lucrative contracts with Saddam that were to have been effective after the UN ended sanctions on Saddam. Guess which countries….Russia & France.
No contract will be awarded until March of 2009 after the new Iraqi Government has reviewed all applications and bids.
Sorry Mary Leon. Once again your blind hatred of a fine man & President, our President Bush, caused you to make an uninformed ass out of yourself, but that is typical of the one percenters here.
PERCY,
I find your lack of fealty is disturbing.
It’s said that George Washington once crucified a man for desertion.
Ever wonder what George Washington would do to the likes of you if he were alive today?
http://www.76house.com/history_tavern.html
Being a mindless ditto-head can be hazardous to your health.
Mary,
If you’re looking for a solid patriotic foundation upon which to despise G.W. Bush, please note that E.O. 13301, issued 21 days after “Mission Accomplished,” legalized all crimes committed by private contractors and mercenaries.
Why is it patriotic to despise Bush over this? Well, ya see, back in July of 1776 13 Colonies set forth a Declaration of Covenants & Restrictions against their first and foremost enemy; TYRANNY.
Montesquieu held that Tyranny consists of oppression via gathering of too much power in too few hands; Locke, i.e. Jefferson’s role model, defined Tyranny as follows:
“AS usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can have a right to.”
http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr18.htm
Legalizing crime is the essence of tyranny.
Accordingly, everything you heard about Bush fighting tyranny in Iraq was a total lie; not just because tyranny is an inherently domestic enemy of the constitution, but for the simple fact that he established tyranny in the very country he claimed to liberate.
Regards,
Bob
“As usurpation is the exercise of power over which another has a right to; so TYRANNY is the exercise of power, beyond
Martha is right. You people are insane. You are literally the one percenters of America all coagulating around a half dozen wacko blogs.
Funny how Obama moved even further to the right today, showing his disgust with you Moveon.org types and Weasely Clark fans.
Who knows, pretty soon Obama might announce he is a Blue Dog Democrat; you know, those Democrats that are so far to the right that they could be mistaken for moderate Republicans. The Democratic party found they had to run blue dog democrats or they could not win a single election in America. Rahm Emmanual came up with that idea, but now he has anothe problem; blue dog democrats gave the Democrats the majority but those same blue dog democrats don’t always follow the party line, do they, on abortion, national security, taxes. etc.
Bob, Esq.
Thank you for that interesting piece of information. I wonder what other “Executive Orders” are out there that Bush signed? Scary thought…
“I wonder how these oil companies were allowed to go into Iraq in the first place, so they could give their ‘free’ advice and how much it’s really going to cost Iraq for this ‘free’ advice?”
You may want to Google up “Executive Order 13303”
mespo:
You betcha I’m telling martha what the ‘real deal’ of the Iraq invasion is.
But there is a huge sadness to all of this–so many, many thousands of people that are dead that shouldn’t be dead. That is something I wish would have never happened–all the deaths of our troops and of innocent Iraqi citizens, just so Bush and his corporate friends could get richer from taking Iraq’s oil.
It’s people like martha who blindly follow whatever they hear, either from the ‘prosperity’ gospel preacher, or the republican party. She fell for the ‘us versus them’ trick–“let’s us ‘christians’ go over to the Middle East and teach them ‘heathen’ Iraqis how ‘conservative and compassionate’ we really are “and, “oh, yeah, while we’re there, let’s show these heathens, who live in the Dark Ages, how we are so ‘progressive’ at getting that oil. Of course, we’ll have to keep the oil profits, or them Iraqis will give the profits to ‘terrorists'”. I bet she even believes that now that Exxon-Mobil, Shell, BP and Chevron have access to the Iraqi oil that the price of a gallon of gas is going to go down. Won’t she be surprised when it DOES NOT go down–rather, the oil companies will INCREASE the price, due to their whining that they have to bring in ‘new’ technology and pipelines to Iraq, so it’s going to cost them a ‘fortune’, and ‘unfortunately’ they have to pass the price increase for us to pay.
Well, I’m glad she’s gone. She’s probably over at either Foxnews.com or Bill O’Reilley’s website, crying her poor little heart out, about us ‘big mean’ liberals, and our ‘big mean’ way of speaking the TRUTH…
Mary Leon:
Daggone it, martha h with her private school education, TOLD (or most likely read) you that the war wasn’t about oil, and you keep presenting all these facts that the National Review never told her about and just upsetting her to no end. She even fled the blog. Now I hope you are happy with yourself because, because….we surely are!
Isn’t it great how current events always seem to come back to bite the neo-cons right on the butt. Would be funnier if we all weren’t paying the price for their rampant stupidity.
Well, what’s the news today? Surprise, Surprise!
Iraq is going to be making short-term contracts with Exxon-Mobil, British Petroleum, Chevron, Shell, and a few other smaller oil companies who want to ‘help’ Iraq pump more oil every day.
Exxon-Mobil, Shell, and British Petroleum have been working in Iraq for ‘free’ the past 2 years and now wants to make sure they get compensated for the ‘free’ advice.
Saddam Hussein kept the big oil companies out of Iraq for over 36 years. Now, these oil companies are being allowed in for short-term drilling rights (how short is short-term anyway? The companies won’t disclose this info).
So, Mr. Bush, who is friends with all the CEOs of all of these big oil companies now says that the US will NOT get involved with helping Iraq deal with these companies.
*** I wonder how these oil companies were allowed to go into Iraq in the first place, so they could give their ‘free’ advice and how much it’s really going to cost Iraq for this ‘free’ advice?***
Let’s see, now, martha, What was the reason Bush invaded Iraq? It certainly WAS NOT for the oil, was it?
Case closed, my dear. RFLMAO