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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-28-08 06:21 PM
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It Was Oil, All Along by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship,
http://www.truthout.org/article/it-was-oil-all-along

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be ... the bottom line. It is about oil.

Alan Greenspan said so last fall. The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, safely out of office, confessed in his memoir, "Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." He elaborated in an interview with The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, "If Saddam Hussein had been head of Iraq and there was no oil under those sands, our response to him would not have been as strong as it was in the first Gulf War."
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-28-08 06:28 PM
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1. Bill's journal was excellent last night
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