Can we Impeach Bush now that Greenspan says Iraq War was totally to steal oil?

Question

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece

Answer 1

I would...That's cold blooded Murder

Answer 2

I'm not sure that's what he actually said, but if there was no oil in the middle east we wouldn't be The pity of the entire business is that we get less than 20% of our oil from the m/e..an amount we could get along with out simply by raising the CAFE standards a few mpg.....an amount that is easily obtained even with current technology. Think about it...you'd have essentially the same vehical with the same performance getting better mileage without spending hundreds of billions of borrowed dollars and God knows how many lives and limbs. The Oil Mafia might lose out on some profits, but everyone else would gain. I wish Bush and Cheney would explain why that would be a bad thing rather than trying to explain why the occupation of Iraq is a good thing!

Answer 3

Greenspan did not say that. I read excerpts from his book. That was Greenspan's reason for going to war that he wanted Bush to support, but Bush and Congress (let us never forget) had a much larger platform and Saddam provided plenty of other reasons besides.

According to the excerpts I read, Saddam was about exercising control over the Straits of Hormuz where a lot of Middle East oil passes through. Greenspan attempted to influence Bush to send troops to the region to stabilize control and reduce the threat Saddam posed through acquiring deterrence intitiatives such as WMD. Your Times article only gives you part of one paragraph in an entire book and tries to juxtapose on an entire event.

You really need to expand your reading beyond the Times. Try the Wall Street Journal which devoted several columns yesterday to multiple excerpts taken from Greenspan's book.

Better yet, buy the book yourself, and learn to read on your own.

Answer 4

Too late for impeachment.
He will be soon out from the White House.
He have few more months left. Just do it after his term. Maybe other that impeachment.

Too late to blame Greenspan. He should spoke out before.

Answer 5

Yes and if Alan Greenspan will tell the truth in his memoir he will also talk about how the war is also about the competition of the euro against the dollar. Hussein was about to make a deal to only sell his oil in euro's and rejecting dollars in a plot by much of the middle-east to break the American economy. Iran is also on that same path.

Answer 6

Bush can be impeached whenever the Democrat majority in Congress stops being a bunch of self-centered, selfish, immature cowards and develops enough guts to stand together and do it. He will never be impeached.

Answer 7

Greenspan was once a Conservative's economic God. But watch them run from him and call him names. That's why conservatives don't-look at John Warner.

Greenspan may be a lot of things but he's not a liberal and is a very smart man.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Iraq-was-about-oil-Alan-Greenspan/2007/09/16/1189881319321.html

Funny, the US papers won't publish this part yet.

Answer 8

Greenspan's elevator don't go all the way to the top any more. You want to base a prosecution on his say so, you'll be joining Mike Nifong in the Prosecutors' Hall of Shame. Nifong? He's another Democrat loser, right?

Answer 9

A) particular, he stated it to sell books. B) He stated it replaced into unlucky that through fact of politics, the administration can not pop out and admit that the conflict is approximately oil to a pair quantity. C) He additionally stated that, without the conflict, oil could be at one hundred thirty five+ money a barrel. In different words, he replaced into asserting what he sees through fact the political fact of the situatiion, no longer making a cost judgment on the advisability of the conflict.

Answer 10

first of all....HELLLOOOOOOO....no impeachable behaviors...if you want a standard or benchmark...use clintons...

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
now as for the iraq war...sorry but liberals dont get a pass just like they scattered like roaches when the going got bad...hillary and edwards. pre flip flop voted FOR the war..ok...
and if you believe everything greenspan says and thats all you need...well ive got a bridge in brooklyn cheap you need to look at.

Answer 11

the thing that angers me is the fact that mr. greenspan knew this back in 2003 and now he is opening his mouth. very same thing with powell. he knew the entire premise to go to war was false and he went along. every single one of them (the war architects) are no different that everything a common gang banner doing a drive by shooting. i hope they all burn in hell.