George Bush on the Middle East crisis

"What crisis? The current crisis is the solution. If you don't keep the pot simmering, the price of oil will fall. And if the price of oil falls, how will American companies make the kind of money they are making from the drilling contracts? See, I ain't as dumb as I seem. In fact, it's you people who are dumb for thinking I am dumb. If I were dumb would the world's most powerful democracy not be able to do something about it?"