Greenspan Says Iraq Was About Oil

[Vulcan]

Yeah I know duh, but it's good to hear this man fessing up after all the baloney reasons fed us. I'll be interested to hear more details.
For us smarter liberals who were against the war from the start, deaths now estimated at 1.2M.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296938,00.html

and
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world...170237,00.html

[Dion]

I'm sure the Bush govt will put it's usual spin on what Greenspan had to say. The saving grace in all this is the American people have seen through Bush's facade and realise they were duped.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by Dion

I'm sure the Bush govt will put it's usual spin on what Greenspan had to say. The saving grace in all this is the American people have seen through Bush's facade and realise they were duped.

One thing that astounds me is that the senate endorsed his lies by giving him a carte blanche for war. Lots of us knew he was full of it and these senators, these professionals, didn't? I'm talking about Hillary and Edwards for starters cause they're running and so did they vote Yea for invasion because of oil too?

[badnarik]

they must be some of the dumber liberals.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by badnarik

they must be some of the dumber liberals.

Or their ability to change their minds reflects "adaptive thinking"....

[HOZ]

[ricoFlame]

um, hello...it was about WMD's...

[Azure]

What?

WASHINGTON — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says comments he wrote in his new book about the Iraq war lead-up should not be taken to mean that oil was the Bush administration's primary reason for going to war.

The two other newspapers benefiting from Greenspan's memoir-hawking rounds took away a slightly different messages from their interviews.

The Washington Post focused on the charge in Greenspan's book that "the Iraq war is largely about oil."

The fiscal guru backed off that assertion by suggesting that while securing global oil supplies "was not the administration's motive," it should have been.

He said than when he made the argument that ousting Saddam Hussein was "essential" because of the threat he posed to U.S. oil interests in the region, White House officials told him "Well, unfortunately, we can't talk about oil."

[FanIn80]

The real question is whether or not George W. Bush Jr. will ever be tried for crimes against humanity.

My money's on the "not" side.

[Gugstanley]

Wow another person trying to peddle a book.

[Dion]

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Gugstanley

Wow another person trying to peddle a book.

I don't think this guy has to write a book if he wants to make a few bucks.

Do you think he's lying?

[Flames89]

Dion. That is a great find. Wow.

edit: looks like neither Ceasar nor Shakespeare ever said that:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dub...esar_quote.htm

too bad, ...

[Lanny_MacDonald]

And in other equally shocking news... Lance Bass is gay.

[Dion]

Four months ago, about 80 oil company executives and consultants packed an office on St. James's Square in London for a briefing on exploration prospects in Iraq's Kurdish region and a Kurdish draft of an Iraqi national petroleum law.

Major U.S. oil companies haven't signed any contracts in Kurdistan yet. Some of them have tried to build goodwill with the central government. Chevron, for example, helped clear mines from the coastline. Others have collected seismic data or trained Iraqi oil company technicians in Dubai.

Gheit estimated that Iraq could easily produce 6 million barrels a day, more than three times its current output and enough to help keep a lid on world prices.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...012301534.html

[Azure]

Well good if Iraq reaches that point....less demand...and the market becomes more stable.

Especially considering that Iran is acting like ######s these days with their ridiculous commments.