Allen Greenspan has said the whole Iraq war was for oil. And neocons are still whining about "oil for food"?

Question

I think the Oil-for-Blood scandal is quite a bit larger, don't you?

Answer 1

Greenspan is trying to divert attention from the true Zionist goals of the wars.

Answer 2

i'm uncertain that's what he relatively suggested, yet whilst there became no oil interior the middle east we does no longer be The pity of the completed enterprise is that we get below 20% of our oil from the m/e..an quantity we could get alongside without using ability of elevating the CAFE standards some mpg.....an quantity it incredibly is truthfully obtained inspite of modern technologies. think of roughly it...you will have in truth an identical vehical with an identical overall performance getting greater advantageous mileage without spending hundreds of billions of borrowed money and God is conscious what number lives and limbs. The Oil Mafia could desire to lose out on some salary, yet everybody else could income. I want Bush and Cheney could clarify why that is a bad ingredient relatively than attempting to describe why the occupation of Iraq is a robust ingredient!

Answer 3

At least, spell my man's name correctly--Alan Greenspan.

Because Bush was so Gung-ho on involving our children in his war that he wouldn't even consider taking it to the UN for discussion at our request, along with the fact that his family has been into oil investments longer than they have been into politics, it wouldn't surprise those of us who have followed their family's oil investments and lack of ethics concerning politics and their private oil investments. It wasn't that long ago this was in the forefront of the news when his father was President.

I get the feeling people forgot about the Bush family's problems and how the Bush "Dynasty" has handled their oil dealings and investments throughout the years.

If you follow how the President votes on oil drilling and you know about their oil investments, allowing him any votes at all is as bad (or worse) as Congress voting for their own raises.

Answer 4

I think it's probably clearer to look at "war for oil" and "oil for food" as two separate, but intersecting, issues.

1. War for Oil:
-- Mystery of the Missing Meters: Accounting for Iraq's Oil Revenue
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14427
"Officials blame the four-year delay in repairing the relatively simple system on "security problems." Others point to the failed efforts of the two U.S. companies hired to repair the southern oil fields, fix the two terminals, and the meters: Halliburton of Houston, Texas, and Parsons of Pasadena, California."
-- Oil in Iraq
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/irqindx.htm
"The four giant firms located in the US and the UK have been keen to get back into Iraq, from which they were excluded with the nationalization of 1972. During the final years of the Saddam era, they envied companies from France, Russia, China, and elsewhere, who had obtained major contracts. But UN sanctions (kept in place by the US and the UK) kept those contracts inoperable. Since the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, much has changed."
-- Corporate Contracts
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/contractindex.htm
"US occupation authorities have assumed control of the reconstruction process and awarded lucrative contracts to US firms with direct links to the White House."
-- Founder of Iraq Oil Workers Union Rejects U.S.-Backed Oil Law as "Robbery"
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/06/1359232
http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/2007/02/oil-law-analysed-on-democracy-law.html

2. Oil for Food:
"Iraq's Missing Billions" and follows Ali Fadhil, an Iraqi doctor and journalist, in his efforts to track down money that was supposed to be spent on reconstruction (approx. $20 billion of Iraq's own money from the UN "Oil for Food" program).
-- "Iraq's Missing Billions" (48 mins):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3904382605215032226
- Also on YouTube, in six parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWk4G9NwVQ
--Transcript
http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=56149

-- Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers:
http://iraqforsale.org/
(Airs periodically on cable and satellite STARZ EDRA)
-- War & Disaster Profiteering:
http://www.corpwatch.com/
-- House Panel Criticizes Shipments of Cash to Iraq
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7226722

Answer 5

Neocons always try to put the best spin on a bad situation to justify their own stance, and have been getting away with it since '80. But I think the general electorate are finally catching on to them and their lies.

We'll see in the next election.

Answer 6

Greenspan's an idiot doing nothing but pandering to the whiney liberals!

If Greenspan is such a Military expert why is he not in charge of our military?

Answer 7

Oil for food was a proper use of oil revenues to feed people who were malnourished due to the extremely effective economic embargo against Iraq.

Alan Greenspan made that statement, but then quickly ate his words. It sure seems to me like a lot of these tell-all guys do this: Hans Blix, Paul O'Neil, David Kay, and even George Tenet. I wonder if someone pressures them into retracting their most shocking revelations....

Answer 8

Actually he said that the war was about oil, not for oil. That means that we had to safeguard the free flow of oil to the civilized nations of the world, at market prices.

Answer 9

i think youve dreamed both of them up i hear neither argument here except from out of control liberal extremists. ..the only thing i hear is liberals whining about general patreus giving an accurate presentation of the facts in iraq and liberals thinking they have nothing left to campaign on as the surge is working.

Answer 10

So it's all Bush's fault and The UN is completly innocent Nice lib spin And keep up with the news and see what Greespam really had to say



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