Can you believe my usually pro-war friends at CNN actually published this?! Of course, they did so back in 2013 - prior to our glorious re-liberation campaign of Iraqs precious oil reserves from the dastardly clutches of freedom-envious evildoers: Oil was not the only goal of the Iraq War, but it was certainly the central one, as top U.S. military and political figures have attested to in the years following the invasion. Of course its about oil; we cant really deny that, said Gen. John Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command and Military Operations in Iraq, in 2007. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan agreed, writing in his memoir, I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil. Then-Sen. and now Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same in 2007: People say were not fighting for oil. Of course we are. For the first time in about 30 years, Western oil companies are exploring for and producing oil in Iraq from some of the worlds largest oil fields and reaping enormous profit. And while the U.S. has also maintained a fairly consistent level of Iraq oil imports since the invasion, the benefits are not finding their way through Iraqs economy or society.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:48:45 +0000