werther
09-17-2007, 12:26 PM
article (http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Greenspan_Lefty_bloggers_totally_unfair_with_0917. html)
Ok, I am sure everybody has read or heard what Greenspan wrote about the Iraq war in his new book, and if not:
"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil," Greenspan wrote in his soon-to-be-published memoir, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.
In the article above he states that the quote is taken out of context. He says that:
"Saddam Hussein was obviously seeking to get a choke hold on the Straits of Hormuz, where about 18 million barrels a day flow from the Middle East to the industrial world. Had he been able to get hold of a nuclear weapon and indeed move through Kuwait and into Saudi Arabia and control the Straits of Hormuz, it would have caused chaos in the international --"
Does anybody else see the circular-reasoning going on here?
THERE WERE NO FUCKING WMD!!!
There is no evidence that he was seeking Nuclear weapons, nor any evidence of a nuclear program.
"Saddam Hussein was obviously seeking to get a choke hold on the Straits of Hormuz"
Obviously? This is fucking news to me!
Of course I am not suprised that Matt Lauer, the douchebag interviewing Greenspan, did not call him on this. Unbelievable.
/rant
Ok, I am sure everybody has read or heard what Greenspan wrote about the Iraq war in his new book, and if not:
"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil," Greenspan wrote in his soon-to-be-published memoir, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.
In the article above he states that the quote is taken out of context. He says that:
"Saddam Hussein was obviously seeking to get a choke hold on the Straits of Hormuz, where about 18 million barrels a day flow from the Middle East to the industrial world. Had he been able to get hold of a nuclear weapon and indeed move through Kuwait and into Saudi Arabia and control the Straits of Hormuz, it would have caused chaos in the international --"
Does anybody else see the circular-reasoning going on here?
THERE WERE NO FUCKING WMD!!!
There is no evidence that he was seeking Nuclear weapons, nor any evidence of a nuclear program.
"Saddam Hussein was obviously seeking to get a choke hold on the Straits of Hormuz"
Obviously? This is fucking news to me!
Of course I am not suprised that Matt Lauer, the douchebag interviewing Greenspan, did not call him on this. Unbelievable.
/rant