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.
1. Most was right by the Kuwaiti border, the Rumaila oilfield and the main oil terminal. One couldn’t help but run into them, these were the first bits of Iraq. The Kirkuk-Mosul fields were not taken until the very end - because they were on the other side of the country from the invasion forces.
2. It was threatened with demolition a la Kuwait in 1991, only on a greater scale. That would have been very bad for any number of reasons. Other Iraqi infrastructure was not threatened by demolition.
3. It represents almost the sole economic support for the Iraqi economy.