Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by cwm (not verified) on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 04:49.
In the Washington Post's major story on Greenspan's remarks, overpaid regurgitator-of-conventional-wisdom Bob Woodward states, "little evidence has emerged to support" the view that invading Iraq had anything to do with oil.
(Though to some extent, Woodward is merely setting up what will follow: flaunting his access to secret documents which in fact constitute precisely such evidence.)
No evidence publicly available, Bob?
I don't get paid a dime to follow what's happening in Washington, nor do I have extraordinary access to inside info. Yet I find it surprising that any presumably-intelligent person could have missed certain signs...
Like the fact that after overthrowing Saddam, we didn't bother to guard gigantic stores of weapons (now being used by Iraqi insurgents to build IEDs to kill U.S. military personnel), because we were too busy securing Iraq's oil ministry?
Or, perhaps one might remember on the eve of the war, when Dubya personally addressed the Iraqi people. What was the first thing he said?
Was it, "Please don't fight our boys in uniform, because they're coming to liberate you"?
No. It was somewhat different, and quite emphatic.
What Bush found most important to tell Iraq was, "DO NOT destroy the oil fields."
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In the Washington Post's major story on Greenspan's remarks, overpaid regurgitator-of-conventional-wisdom Bob Woodward states, "little evidence has emerged to support" the view that invading Iraq had anything to do with oil.
(Though to some extent, Woodward is merely setting up what will follow: flaunting his access to secret documents which in fact constitute precisely such evidence.)
No evidence publicly available, Bob?
I don't get paid a dime to follow what's happening in Washington, nor do I have extraordinary access to inside info. Yet I find it surprising that any presumably-intelligent person could have missed certain signs...
Like the fact that after overthrowing Saddam, we didn't bother to guard gigantic stores of weapons (now being used by Iraqi insurgents to build IEDs to kill U.S. military personnel), because we were too busy securing Iraq's oil ministry?
Or, perhaps one might remember on the eve of the war, when Dubya personally addressed the Iraqi people. What was the first thing he said?
Was it, "Please don't fight our boys in uniform, because they're coming to liberate you"?
No. It was somewhat different, and quite emphatic.
What Bush found most important to tell Iraq was, "DO NOT destroy the oil fields."