Comments on: Greenspan Backtracks On Iraq War Oil Claim

The Skinny: Former Fed Chief Now Says Oil Wasn't The Reason For U.S. Invasion.

[jimfinster]

lars008:

Sigh ... go seek professional help.

[lars008-2009]

VOTE FOR JEFFERSON%u2026 VOTE AGAINST FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM%u2026 VOTE GOP%u2026

dnc are like john adams and want to give the jihadist their lunch money hoping they will leave us alone....

gop are like thomas jefferson and want to spend their lunch money on weapons and go kick the jihadists in their arses.....

What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad

Thomas Jefferson knew about fascist nazi islam..... he killed plenty of them....

In 1786 Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli''''s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:

The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
muslim justifies slavery and piracy%u2026
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7

[geezer62]

one_american
What an incredibly stupid statement! Don''t you read the newspapers, watch tv news or even bother to try to educate yourself? How can you make such a statement in view of all the information that is now available? I have always tried to gather as much information as possible before coming to any conclusion. Try it sometime..you might be suprised.

[jimfinster]

One_American:

Sorry to disappoint you, but I am not a liberal. I know this will be difficult for you to compute in your black/white vision of the world.

Of course it was about the oil. Do you still think it was about WMD? Remind me again where those are :)

[one_american]

"The biggest problem was all the lying that was done to get there."

Posted by rharrin1 at 11:52 AM : Sep 17, 2007


There was no lying...except for the lying you liberals started after the war began.

[jimfinster]

rharrin1:

Exactly. Bush gives a different explanation for Iraq every day. He should just be honest for once and tell the truth: "We invaded Iraq because it has the second largest reserve of crude oil in the world."

[jimfinster]

Why is it so horrible that we went to war over the free flow of oil? Our country NEEDS the free flow of oil to function.
You make it sound as if we went to war over Twinkies or something. If the flow of oil to this country stopped, it would probably be the most horrible economic catastrophy in history. Oil is an important commodity to keep our engine running, it''s not some evil monster like cocaine or something.
Posted by hawksprings

Actually, I was just quoting Greenspan. But do you really think it a good idea to invade another country to capture their natural resources, whatever it might be? Just think if Bush had taken all those billions spent on Iraq and spent it on alternate energy??

[clestes-2009]

"Glumly" is pretty mild for what is coming. With spiralling debt, spending completely out of control, the housing crisis in its earliest stages and a recession looking more likely all the time, well I expect he is glum about the future.

The Bush administration will leave this country is complete financial collapse. The reps think we need to establish long term bases in the middle east. that is a pipedream!

We won''t have the ability to fund the National Guard, let alone this worldwide army they envision.

And you think that this is bad?? Wait tell dumbo invades Iran. It will be as bad as the Great Despression ever was.

[jimfinster]

hawksprings:

Ya out there?

[starleo146]

"I''m just very disappointed," he told the Times "glumly" from his living room. "Smaller government, lower spending, lower taxes, less regulation - they had all the resources to do it, they had the knowledge to do it, they had the majorities to do it. And they didn''t."

They did the very opposite didn''t they Mr. Greenspan?

[hawksprings]

jimfinster, (btw,it''s cold and rainy here today, perfect Oregon weather...)
Why is it so horrible that we went to war over the free flow of oil? Our country NEEDS the free flow of oil to function.
You make it sound as if we went to war over Twinkies or something. If the flow of oil to this country stopped, it would probably be the most horrible economic catastrophy in history. Oil is an important commodity to keep our engine running, it''s not some evil monster like cocaine or something.

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[jimfinster]

In another potential embarrassment for Bush and the Republicans, Greenspan asserted that the need for secure oil supplies from the Middle East was the true rationale for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

``I''m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil,'''' Greenspan wrote in a chapter titled ``The Long-Term Energy Squeeze.''''

[pwrslm]

Its easy to sit back and take pot shots when you dont have anything to lose.

Greenspan is no exception. He did love Billy though, between the two of them they floated the housing industry boom for a decade, increasing housing costs in America by something like 250%.