Terror Threat? 'It Was All About The Oil'
Why don't they say at the time? They would lose their jobs which is more important than people losing their lives.
And the US economy going into the shitter. Unless you work in the oil or arms industry.
Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve, says oil was the primary motive for the Iraq war.
Alan Greenspan was US Fed boss for 18 years Mr Greenspan, one of America's most respected elder statesmen, said it was politically inconvenient to acknowledge the fact.
The declaration is made in his memoirs, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, due to be published on Monday.
The US and Britain have always maintained that the war to oust Saddam Hussein was about weapons of mass destruction - not oil.
US President George Bush said Saddam was a threat to world security because he could sell the weapons on to terrorists.
Alan Greenspan was US Fed boss for 18 years Mr Greenspan, one of America's most respected elder statesmen, said it was politically inconvenient to acknowledge the fact.
The declaration is made in his memoirs, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, due to be published on Monday.
The US and Britain have always maintained that the war to oust Saddam Hussein was about weapons of mass destruction - not oil.
US President George Bush said Saddam was a threat to world security because he could sell the weapons on to terrorists.
And the US economy going into the shitter. Unless you work in the oil or arms industry.
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