October 15, 2007 2:32 PM

Pop Quiz, Hotshot!

Sometimes in our campaign to bring common-sense to our Iraq policy, we come across some rather unlikely allies. For instance, who said the following over the weekend?

“Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” [the person] said of the Iraq campaign early on in the talk.

“We’ve treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations,” [he or she] said. “Our message to them is: Guys, keep your pumps open, prices low, be nice to the Israelis and you can do whatever you want out back. Osama and 9/11 is the distilled essence that represents everything going on out back.”

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“I’d rather have more members of the State Department on the field than soldiers on the field,” [he or she] said.

So, who said such radical things? Noam Chomsky? Cindy Sheehan? Answer after the jump!

Former Centcom commander Gen. John Abizaid.