I came to this realization while surfing around my blog roll favorites. Perhaps, the reason for invading Iraq has not so much to do with the oil. Indeed, it may have to do with the fact that Saddam didn't get the job done with Iran. That is, its all about payback for not demolishing Iran long ago when Rummy, Cheney et. al. were working for other Administrations.
So, what the W, Rove and Co is really doing is settling a score with Saddam, and setting us up to do the dirty work he didn't finish: Bombing the shit out of Iran. What better location to mount an Iran attack from permanent bases well established in Iraq, atop a large resevoir of cheep oil? It's too bad, for us and the Iraqis, that Saddam didn't complete the job when Rummy was shaking hands with him long ago. Now the American Taxpayer has to pick up the larger tab for it. And, what a large price we have paid for it.
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It's not about the oil?
''... Phillips is scathingly critical of what he considers the dangerous policies of the Bush administration, he does not spend much time examining the ideas and behavior of the president and his advisers. Instead, he identifies three broad and related trends — none of them new to the Bush years but all of them, he believes, exacerbated by this administration's policies — that together threaten the future of the United States and the world. One is the role of oil in defining and, as Phillips sees it, distorting American foreign and domestic policy. The second is the ominous intrusion of radical Christianity into politics and government. And the third is the astonishing levels of debt ...'' [Emphasis added.]
Iran has almost exactly the same amount of oil as Iraq, and more natural gas. Together, Iraq & Iran have almost as much as Saudi Arabia. It's about the oil.
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