War in Iraq for Oil
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.
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- I think Greenspan is going senile. If the war is all about oil then why is the price of oil at about $80 right now? -
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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It's naive to say the war was all about oil. Left or right, to suggest that you can reduce the complex situation that brought about Iraq to one motive, one force is trite and simplistic.
I agree, David.
Greenspan is being very, very simplistic. And he is wrong, wrong, wrong.
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