Bush: 'Oil Spill in Front of Protesters Regrettable'September 01, 2005 00:00President George W. Bush has issued a statement lamenting that a release of oil to flood the road in front of an anti-war caravan headed to Washington was not a planned event and has been 'an accidental and regrettable waste of a critical national resource.' The oil, taken out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and transported by tanker truck to the highway in front of the caravan, seems to have delayed the group's movements by a day or so, possibly long enough for the President's team to implement a poll-number-recovery strategy. The caravan is stranded on a section of highway in Texas that is known for it's view of oil wells and lack of cell phone coverage. The group's spokesman stated that 'no amount of oil, guns, or violations of the first amendment [by Presidential security] will stop us from delivering our message to the White House. Stop this illegal occupation of Iraq, and bring our troops home.'
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