Greenspan told Bush the war "should be about oil" and Bush rejected this !
Go read what Greenspan said on Fox yesterday and he said the President rejected his notion that the war on Iraq should be about oil and Greenspan told him he could make a good case on going to war for oil but said Bush told him that's not the correct reason..
and still another smack-down for Chris Matthews.
Laura really flustered Matthews when she told him he knew he was misrepresenting what Greenspan said.
I like this one too:
Greenspan Corrects Record, Slams Democrats
Two days ago, it was reported that Alan Greenspan said in his new book that, “the Iraq War is largely about oil.” Within hours the story had been picked up by news and bloggers around the world. Liberal websites were beside themselves with glee! “See! Greenspans says Bush went to war for oil!…Its all for oil!”
By Wednesday, a Google search returned 1,310,000 hits on the story.
Now we find out that Greenspan’s views were misrepresented:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clarifying a controversial comment in his new memoir, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he told the White House before the Iraq war that removing Saddam Hussein was “essential” to secure world oil supplies, according to an interview published on Monday.
Greenspan, who wrote in his memoir that “the Iraq War is largely about oil,” said in a Washington Post interview that while securing global oil supplies was “not the administration’s motive,” he had presented the White House before the 2003 invasion with the case for why removing the then-Iraqi leader was important for the global economy.
“I was not saying that that’s the administration’s motive,”