Reply #16: how that is presented is exactly what I'm talking about

[yurbud]

"Reducing dependence on foreign oil" by itself does not get people's attention. "Stop sacrificing American and Iraqi lives for oil companies profits" is both more attention getting and honest.

You have to connect the two for people to see the urgency of our energy situation, and to realize that Iraq is not primarily a national security issue, at least not even remotely in the sense that it was presented by the Bush administration.