The Coalition of the Willing have denied that oil was the driving force for invading Iraq. Yesterday, Alan Greenspan was reported as saying that it was oil which motivated the war in Iraq.
Little reported, Henry Kissinger in a Washington Post op-ed piece also points up that oil was the key for the Iraq war - and why the US should take on Iran.
As Robert Weissman says in a piece on CommonDreams:
"Henry Kissinger echoes this view in his op-ed. “Iran has legitimate aspirations that need to be respected,” he writes — but those legitimate aspirations do not include control over the oil that the United States and other industrial countries need.
“An Iran that practices subversion and seeks regional hegemony — which appears to be the current trend — must be faced with lines it will not be permitted to cross. The industrial nations cannot accept radical forces dominating a region on which their economies depend, and the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran is incompatible with international security.”
Note that Kissinger prioritizes Iranian (or “radical”) control over regional oil supplies over concern about the country acquiring nuclear weapons."
Read Weissman's piece, here, with considerable interest, for what many prominent "players" have said in the past in denying that oil was the reason for going into Iraq.
Little reported, Henry Kissinger in a Washington Post op-ed piece also points up that oil was the key for the Iraq war - and why the US should take on Iran.
As Robert Weissman says in a piece on CommonDreams:
"Henry Kissinger echoes this view in his op-ed. “Iran has legitimate aspirations that need to be respected,” he writes — but those legitimate aspirations do not include control over the oil that the United States and other industrial countries need.
“An Iran that practices subversion and seeks regional hegemony — which appears to be the current trend — must be faced with lines it will not be permitted to cross. The industrial nations cannot accept radical forces dominating a region on which their economies depend, and the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran is incompatible with international security.”
Note that Kissinger prioritizes Iranian (or “radical”) control over regional oil supplies over concern about the country acquiring nuclear weapons."
Read Weissman's piece, here, with considerable interest, for what many prominent "players" have said in the past in denying that oil was the reason for going into Iraq.
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