Posted on 09/15/2007 4:21:02 PM PDT by freespirited
AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.
In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies.
However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.
Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East.
Britain and America have always insisted the war had nothing to do with oil. Bush said the aim was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and end Saddam’s support for terrorism
Of course we should have started drilling in ANWR, but the Traitorcrats, and a few RINO's have made it illegal!
Never heard of it. I think you're misunderstanding me...I wasn't being critical; I think that among other reasons, eliminating his support of terrorism in the region was a perfectly legitimate casus belli.
The two are somewhat related anyway, at least to the extent that they occur in the same region.
And while it's true that other countries in the region have and continue to facilitate anti-Israel terrorism, Saddam was fairly brazen about it by comparison.
And, yes, Israel could have chosen to strike, but I think we were discouraging them from doing so, because it would complicate the peace negotiation efforts we were involved in.
As far as Iraqi oil goes, it was only important in an indirect way, since it was largely a French concern, as far as I know.
Additionally, he was sitting on a huge store of oil.
Who gives a damn about the reasons now?
The fact is, 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq are free now, and if allowed to remain free, they will become partners in the Middle East WITH America--government and business.
All this pissing and moaning about oil is just for the whiners on the left.
Thats why the Iraq-for-oil argument has not convinced me.
Seriously folks, if the US govt. knew that our oil supply was in danger, we would have been scrambling to drill in as many places as possible [the dems would concede ANWR for national security reasons] and/or strike deals with other countries, etc. Hitlery and John Kerry were just has hawkish about Iraq as Bush was, in 2003.
I guess at his age the only way he can entertain Andrea Mitchell at night is to talk against President Bush...
Jim Baker said something like this once about the first gulf war, once. He learned never to say this again, publicly.
See if the libs refuse to take the oil.
Greenspan is the most overrated mumble mouth on the planet.
This idiot says that the Clinton economic team always did what was in the best interests of the country as compared to the “Bush” people... A lying RAT shill.
Nam Vet
Sooooooooo....let me guess, you think it’s about spreading democracy?....or...ummmmmm wmd?
lol
“ALL wars are about global strategy and issues that involve the security of the nation.
Free control of oil being one of those issues.
So my answer to this is... so?”
Thank you.
agreed...
so?
BFD.
Eff ‘em.
What a jerk. Intellectually bankrupt.
about oil? about a strategy to contain resurgent pride in being a savage. A plan to punish savagery and to set down a blocking army to protect Israel while the navy and air force disables the Iranian military. oil? sure if by oil you mean answering to the people’s demand for security, economic and otherwise. To let Iran run wild and bully SA and the rest into working against us is sheer madness. Greenspan’s a truther too? I mean come on.
Not directly. She just had her democratic party daily talking points playing loud every night before bed and he was subliminally hypnotized.
Now he is turning into a demborg and doesn’t even notice he is joining the collective. He is being absorbed.
My only question given some recent statements.. where has Bush and Tony Snow been hearing those tapes?
Ulimately it is about preventing a future war with a nuclear armed united islamo facist empire, a war we could lose.
Yup. Japan didn’t have it.
LLS
Read about what they said about Truman then... and what is said today. It is now as it ever was.
LLS
God magically protects the USA from dopes like this.
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