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As We All Knew, Bush's Iraq War is For the Oil
by James Glaser September 17, 2007 For years many antiwar people were saying that Bush's Iraq War was for the oil, but the Republican faithful would hear none of that. Now Alan Greenspan, Mr. Republican heading the US Federal Reserve for the last 18 years under both parties, has come clean.
It is a real shame that Alan couldn't have come out with this statement before the 2004 election, but the man was a Republican, and he needed to protect his party. If he had been honest back then, many thousands of American troops might not have suffered death or maiming. We will never know how many hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis that one sentence might have saved. If you will remember back to the months just before George Bush started his "shock and awe" bombing campaign on the cities of Iraq, you should remember that millions of people the world over protested the start of the war. Millions of Americans felt that Bush was making a grab for Iraqi oil, and the internet was filled with columns stating that. However, the American media flooded the newspapers and television news programs with stories about Weapons of Mass Destruction. They would report about the tons and liters of chemical weapons that Saddam might have, and seldom if ever explored what Washington planned to do with Iraq's oil. As I think back it was Dick Cheney's story that Iraqi oil would pay for this war, but back then they were talking a total cost of $50 billion. Right now $50 billion lasts the Pentagon about three months. Well, Greenspan is a little late with his honesty, but it is kind of nice to know that those at the top in Washington really knew what was going on all along. If George Bush is ever put on trial for war crimes, maybe other top officials will turn State's evidence, and even more of the truth will come out. |
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