Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil

Alan Greenspan has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons by stating that the Iraq war was actually 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.

He has a lot to say about the Bush administration's general economic incompetence but by stating that the Iraq war was actually about oil he really is throwing a spanner into the works.

The subject of Iraq's oil has been successfully sidelined, even whilst the Bush administration push through the disgraceful act of theft which is the Iraqi Oil Law. However, Greenspan being as direct has he has been about the subject of oil is bound to open the whole debate up again.

There will be the inevitable attacks from right wing nutcases like Bill O'Reilly and others, but Greenspan is such a respected figure that it will be very hard to bat away his observations. After all, has nothing to gain from saying what he has said.

Oh yes, he has a "book to sell" as right wing nutcases love to point out. But he's hardly short of a bob or two is he?

He also says that the Republicans deserved to lose the mid-term elections:

"The Republicans in Congress lost their way," Greenspan wrote. "They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose."

His book is released on Monday. The right wing attack machine will swing into action first thing Monday morning.

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