"Progressives" jump the gun to bash Bush... do you feel silly now?

Question

Greenspan clarifies Iraq war and oil link

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clarifying a controversial comment in his new memoir, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he told the White House before the Iraq war that removing Saddam Hussein was "essential" to secure world oil supplies, according to an interview published on Monday.

"I was not saying that that's the administration's motive," Greenspan said in the interview conducted on Saturday. "I'm just saying that if somebody asked me, 'Are we fortunate in taking out Saddam?' I would say it was essential."

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN1728646120070917

Henry VIII - Where you and I differ is that I am all for securing oil supplies. You see, I live in this really neat place called reality where it is acknowledged that we must have secure oil supplies until we can produce alternate energy sources (which we should be aggressively seeking instead of allowing a select few continue to profit from said oil).

Ndqbill – Admittedly ‘really neat place’ was not the most correct way to say this (apologies to Henry VIII for being a smartarse).

I am frequently so torn on this. On the one hand I certainly want America to remain the worlds superpower because human nature & history proves that there will always and forever be a big dog on the block. I can’t think of any other nation that I would prefer it be than America. We enjoy the most stable republic in history & we do give billions in foreign aid.

On the other hand I abhor blood for oil. But, what alternative is there when our supplies are threatened?

Answer 1

He said that same thing on the TODAY show this morning. But libs take that one sentence 'Iraq is about the oil' and run with it!

Answer 2

Greenspan was saying and told the Administration that it was essential to remove Saddam Husseing to secure oil supplies. If that isn't saying he thought the war was over oil than what is he saying? If the Bush administration followed his advice than it can be said that the war is over oil in the minds of those in the Bush Administration too. No one has jumped the gun except Bush in going into Iraq in the first place. If anyone should feel silly it is you for posting this as it contradicts just what you are alluding to.

Answer 3

Boy, do I ever feel silly. So, it was Greenspan all along. I should have known. No wonder Bush is doing so badly since Greenspan resigned. The administration lost it's one and only functioning brain. Here I thought he was just the chairman of the Fed.

Answer 4

Seldom do I come across a statement that can be so acturately descibed by a famous Bard quote than the one made by Sharia to Henry VIII.

The citation is : " A TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT FULL OF SOUND AND FURY SIGNIFYING NOTHING " (From Macbeth 5.5 )

Sharia's statement was :

"You see ,I live in this really neat place where it is acknowledged that we must have secure oil supplies until we can produce alternate energy sources (Which we should be aggressively seeking instead of allowing a select few to profit from oil )


Let us look at this "really neat place " Sharia lives in .

It is a place where absolutely nothing stands in the way of securing oil supplies.It is a place full of slaughter and torture and destruction of DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS .

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp

To secure oil supplies the US simply destroyed a DEMOCRATIC IRANIAN GOVERNMENT IN 1953 AND PUT IN PLACE THE VILE FILTHY DICTATOR ,THE SHAH OF IRAN who proceeded to slaughter innocent Iranians who dared try and resurrect their DEMOCRACY and get back their FREEDOMS and LIBERTIES.

Yes,this to Sharia ,is a "REALLY NICE PLACE".


Your place is a place where democracy,freedom,liberty simply GO TO DIE along with any semblance of morality.

Bush decided to wage an ILLEGAL war of choice based upon a pack of filthy friggin lies (THE TRUTH WAS OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL ) that has resulted in the slaughter of over 400,000 innocent Iraqi civilians .

Sharia's NICE PLACE is a place which is MORALLY BANKRUPT and where OIL/PROFITS TRUMP EVERYTHING INCLUDING HUMAN LIVES .

Iran is /was all about oil period .The reported Greenspan
clarifications merely strengthen his charge that the US atrocity in Iraq is ALL ABOUT OIL for the "taking out of Saddam" was to secure world oil supplies.

Sharia claims that " ..it is acknowledged that we must have secure oil supplies".

First of all ,who the hell are these people who are doing the "ACKNOWLEDGING" ??

Is it that Iraqi mother who was caught on camera sweeping up the body parts of her 5 year old daughter for burial or was it all those prisoners that were either killed or tortured by the US MILITARY ??

Is this the NICE PLACE you speak of ???

You will understand why I have NO intention of joining you in your REALLY NICE PLACE .

Don't take any of this personal.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Ummmm.... This proves what, exactly? All it proves to me is that Greenspan was just as greedy and short sighted as all the rest of the elites. Or is this just a sneaky way of saying that the honorable and naive George W. Bush was deceived by the Wicked Jooos?

Answer 7

No, I don't feel a bit silly. Greenspan was not the President , Bush said himself, "I'm the decider", so that was his plan to decide. He never listened to anything a person told anyway except as he put it God told him to free Iraq and Greenspan damn sure isn't God, by far. So, don't go making excuses for Bush that Greenspan told him, you know why he went and did this terrible thing for DADDY and OIL. Get a life and stop trying to make excuses for that Brain Dead Idiot.

Answer 8

Why? It is for the oil. I'm not saying that is not a good thing, only that the way Bush went about it really sucks. He has kind of an Alamo approach to things where as all the hero's end up getting killed. I find his approach for the rich and protection of the Arabs way over the top and he is hurting America.

Answer 9

I like the whole statement better than the parts people cherry pick for their own agenda.

"I was not saying that that's the administration's motive," Greenspan said in the interview conducted on Saturday. "I'm just saying that if somebody asked me, 'Are we fortunate in taking out Saddam?' I would say it was essential."

How is he saying the war is about oil?

Answer 10

Alan Greenspan is a very smart man, but if you watched the "60 Minutes" interview, you'd see that he very carefully worded that statement to make it relative to world oil supplies. He did not say that it would be worth even one American life. He did not say we had to do it by toppling the Iraqi government and destroying their infrastructure - in fact I suspect he'd be against that.

We could all solve that problem by applying all the billions we spend on the war to becoming completely independent from Middle Eastern oil interests. But that wouldn't solve the testosterone leakage that really caused this war...

Answer 11

Not really. Odds are in our favor he;ll do something stupid again soon. His pick for AG was due to his weakness, the Bush of two years ago would have never made that choice.

And OBTW, reducing 30,000 in Iraq isn't a reduction, it simply returns the force levels to that of "pre" surge.

Ask your grand kids how they'll feel paying the interest on the 500 billion this fiasco has cost us thus far. For that much, we could have built hydrogen stations across the country, and began reducing our dependence to oil, the real way we'll win the WAR.