Our old financial wizard is getting into the Iraq war it seems. Alan Greenspan is writing that Iraq was all about oil:
However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.
Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East.
Britain and America have always insisted the war had nothing to do with oil. Bush said the aim was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and end Saddam’s support for terrorism.
Yes, he posed a threat to oil supplies. He posed a thread to the world community with his WMD’s. He posed a threat to the world community with his support of terrorists along with the fact that he disobeyed the world community over and over and over again after signing a cease fire. He posed a threat many ways which all added up to one conclusion, he must be removed. Bill Clinton understood it, as did Bush. But Bush did something about it rather then lob a few missiles.
We invaded for all the reasons above, which was the only just outcome in a post 9/11 world.
Oil was one of them, and it most definitely is something worth fighting for. Not to enrich our nation but to ensure that the worlds oil supply is run smoothly. It has always been US policy to make certain aggressor nations would never be allowed to interfere with oil supplies. Hell, Jimmy Carter, that man of limited brain power, understood this and created the US Rapid Deployment Force to protect the worlds oil supply. The Carter Doctrine of 1980 declared that the United States would not allow Persian Gulf oil supplies to be held hostage by crazed tyrants.
We conducted retaliatory strikes against Iranian oil platforms in the 1980’s when they attacked oil shipments in the gulf. Why would we do that if we did not understand the importance of keeping the Strait open?
We do all this to ensure ALL nations can receive oil. A tyrant must not be allowed to close the Strait of Hormuz and in so doing holding the world hostage.
But in the end Oil was just ONE reason we invaded. The writer of the above article can ignore all the other reasons and pretend it was all to enrich certain people, a favorite conspiracy theory from the kooks on the left, but in the end history will recognize that invading Iraq was a just and noble cause which took a unstable murderer off the world stage and gave Democracy to a nation smack dab in the middle of most of our enemies.
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