I guess we now have an idea of what being married to Andrea Mitchell does to a man's brain.
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To: freespirited
Of course. WW II was about oil, too. Oil determined much of the strategy.
2 posted on
09/15/2007 4:22:40 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Snow above 2000')
To: freespirited
Then when will we be claiming it?
3 posted on
09/15/2007 4:25:36 PM PDT by
elizabetty
(The job of POTUS is not about ideology alone; it is about COMPETENCE to do the job WELL.)
To: freespirited
ALL wars are about global strategery and issues that involve the security of the nation.
Free control of oil being one of those issues.
So my answer to this is... so?
4 posted on
09/15/2007 4:26:29 PM PDT by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: freespirited
It was for oil? Fine. With. Me.
5 posted on
09/15/2007 4:27:13 PM PDT by
SaxxonWoods
(...."We're the govt, and we're here to hurt."....)
To: freespirited
Perhaps Greenspan engineered the recession that gave us Clinton.
To: freespirited
It was more about Israel than oil, IMO. Saddam was funding Palestinian homicide bombers. He was an obstacle to peace.
8 posted on
09/15/2007 4:29:17 PM PDT by
B Knotts
(Tancredo '08!)
To: freespirited
Still angry because Gore Lost.
9 posted on
09/15/2007 4:30:23 PM PDT by
Son House
($$Proud Memeber of Vast Right Wing, Out To Lower Your Tax Rates For More Opportunities.$$)
To: freespirited
I always wondered why we secured Iraq’s oil infrastructure before anything else.
Does Greenspan realize what a complete fool this makes him look like?
Iraq oil production dropped and we didn’t do a thing about it. Kinda shoots that theory in the brain.
12 posted on
09/15/2007 4:30:44 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
To: freespirited
First of all, this is a British rag...
Did AG really say this or was his quote taken out of context?
If AG was in fact being so honest, did he apologize for creating the sub-prime mortgage crisis and liquidity meltdown that may lead to an recession next year?
13 posted on
09/15/2007 4:30:57 PM PDT by
John123
("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
To: freespirited
The Headline should really read:
ALAN GREENSPAN HAS GONE SENILE, RANTS ILLOGICAL BULLSH!T
14 posted on
09/15/2007 4:31:13 PM PDT by
Big Guy and Rusty 99
("A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one" - Hamilton)
To: freespirited
The Headline should really read:
ALAN GREENSPAN HAS GONE SENILE, RANTS ILLOGICAL BULLSH!T
15 posted on
09/15/2007 4:31:17 PM PDT by
Big Guy and Rusty 99
("A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one" - Hamilton)
To: freespirited
Absolutely ! He used to have gravitas and credibility ...
16 posted on
09/15/2007 4:32:10 PM PDT by
STARWISE
(They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
To: freespirited
Killing two birds with one stone, is not a bad strategy. He should know this better.
17 posted on
09/15/2007 4:32:31 PM PDT by
OneHun
To: freespirited
I wouldn’t blame her....Greenspan is not really a conservative, just appointed by them.
19 posted on
09/15/2007 4:33:10 PM PDT by
wardaddy
(WideAwakes is right now in full meltdown.....the horror.....sniff sniff...ya'll please don't come ba)
To: freespirited
The Headline should really read:
BIG GUY AND RUSTY 99 HAS GONE SENILE, DOUBLE POSTS IN THREAD
20 posted on
09/15/2007 4:33:31 PM PDT by
Big Guy and Rusty 99
("A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one" - Hamilton)
To: freespirited
Did he say that like it’s a bad thing? Not that that was the only reason. I would like everyone willing to live without oil, to begin doing it now. So the rest of us can live comfortably on what we produce domestically. GO!
To: freespirited
He is married to ugly MSDNC lib Andrea Mitchell. It is impossible for him to do anything but criticize Republicans. He is a “Republican” in the same way David Gergen and William Cohen are.
24 posted on
09/15/2007 4:36:24 PM PDT by
Rosemont
To: freespirited
Two points.
1 - Well Greenspan is not as smart as he is credited with then. Even a child could see we haven’t gained much oil from the war in Iraq. Where is this oil we supposedly stole?
2- Even if it was about oil which it is not - so what? Why is that a bad thing anyway? If a country or group of countries threatened to shut off the flow of oil any American President including dems would go to war to keep the country and world from depression.
To: freespirited
do you suppose she was the co-author? the exerpts that have been published sound exactly like her words.
28 posted on
09/15/2007 4:40:30 PM PDT by
elpadre
To: freespirited
The Dems have co-opted this old coot for their strategy against the War on Terror. (Yes, that would make him a traitor, if true.) I cannot believe that the publication of this PW memoir was not timed to sabotage the war in Iraq by claiming it is a "war for oil," right after the long-anticipated Petraeus report.
By the way, the usual Commie mirage of a U.S. "war for oil" (they used that line about Vietnam, too) is a claim that we intend to gain an oil supply by simply seizing another country's oil fields and keeping them for ourselves. Okay, considering who controls most of the oil, I might consider it. But I don't write the policies here.
The reality is that a "war for oil" in this case is to ensure that the lion's share of known oil reserves is available for sale in the world market—rather than being seized or destroyed by ideological kooks like Saddam or al Qaeda. Anyone who thinks that kind of "war for oil" is somehow bad is not an adult.
Gosh, d'ya think the MSM outlets will spend a few weeks claiming Greenspan said the President wanted to steal Iraq's oil fields and keep them?
Not that I think Greenspan was likely consulted about war aims.
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