A little more to the right, Hans. Good.
Posted on 11/07/2007 10:11:13 AM PST by gandalftb
SYDNEY — Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, here to receive the Sydney Peace Prize, believes the US plans to stay long in Iraq to guarantee the flow of oil supplies and to keep a close eye on neighboring Iran.
"One fear I would have is that the US has a hidden thought to remain in Iraq," Blix told the Australian radio.
"One reason why they wanted in was that they felt they must leave Saudi Arabia. After the Gulf War in 1991, they left their troops in Saudi Arabia to protect pipelines,". "And when they felt they could no longer stay in Saudi Arabia, Iraq was the next best place because it was more secularized than Saudi Arabia and had the second biggest oil reserves in the region."
Blix has said that the West's neo-colonial approach in dealing with Iran is humiliating and unfruitful, insisting Tehran should be given reasonable incentives to halt its nuclear program.
Blix, who led UN weapons inspection in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, described the Iraq war as a disaster.
"The aims of the war were, first of all, to eliminate weapons of mass destruction that did not exist; secondly, to establish a democracy -- and what they ended up with was anarchy; and thirdly, they wanted to weed out Al-Qaeda, which were not there but which came there," he told The Australian newspaper.
"What it goes to show is that although tyranny is horrible, anarchy can be even worse than tyranny."
He's right about us being asked to leave the "holy soil" of Saudi Arabia after we liberated Kuwait and saved the Saudis from Saddam.
He then labels all of Iraq as anarchy and says that it's worse than Saddam's tyranny.
Well Hans, ignorance is Blix. When you and your families and countrymen ever have the weight of the world's future on your backs and have to shed your blood and the blood of your children to keep this world from vaporizing itself, you will know the courage it takes to be an American.
So go collect your peace prizes and we'll go out and earn them without a lot of loose talk.
The headline is meant (in my view) to raise an inference that the US means to TAKE the oil. All that Blix said is that the US may stay (longer) to ensure the oil’s free-market flow. That’s a huge difference from “eyeing the oil [covetously, hoping to grab it for ourselves].”
A little more to the right, Hans. Good.
ANYONE LISTENS TO HANS BLIX ANYMORE?????????
AFTER HE LET A MAN DIE WHO DESPERATEDLY WANTED TO GIVE HIM IRAQI INTELLGENCE ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION BECAUASE “HE DID NOT APPROCH ELEGANTLY”
I guess we could have just done what the Swedes did in WWII. Stay out of it and keep selling stuff to the Nazis.
Islam online is nowhere near the level of journalistic competency of Aljazeera.
Yes.
We have US Marines stationed around the Saudi oil fields we declared belong to us during the buildup to desert storm, which was a pretext to get to the oil fields there.
We have US Marines stationed in Kuwait around the Kuwait oil fields we declared belong to us after we kicked Saddam out of them after we lured him into attacking Kuwait just so we could grab the oil fields.
Hans Blix could not find his nose with his left hand if he tried.
Mr. Magoo is really showing his true colors.
the US plans to stay long in Iraq to guarantee the flow of oil supplies and to keep a close eye on neighboring Iran.
This sounds good to me. We should take some of the oil from Iraq for ourselves and then bomb Iran.
Do the Blixs and Jimmah Carters, secretly have a shrine to Neville Chamberlain that they worship?
Hans Brix trying to stay relevant in 2007, what a joke!
Ignorance is Blix.
War for Oil is as good a reason for war as any other, Hans.
Yes, doesn’t most of Iraq’s oil go to Europe? So, we’re bleedin’ for Blix and his homeland?
Their hero is the anti-hero Neville Chamerlain./
Hmmmm, he is staying. Wonder what kind of commission he gets for oil-food kickbacks.
Crude Oil Imports (Top 15 Countries)
(Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country Aug-07 Jul-07 YTD 2007 Aug-06 Jan - August 2006
CANADA 1,950 1,797 1,853 1,862 1,780
SAUDI ARABIA 1,468 1,434 1,427 1,477 1,409
MEXICO 1,381 1,469 1,448 1,667 1,663
NIGERIA 1,184 890 1,025 898 1,063
VENEZUELA 1,138 1,167 1,120 1,151 1,166
ALGERIA 572 520 509 506 347
IRAQ 520 460 481 620 561
ANGOLA 400 392 524 525 486
BRAZIL 250 147 171 196 130
ECUADOR 240 159 196 285 268
COLOMBIA 152 207 126 125 160
KUWAIT 139 197 189 136 159
LIBYA 104 165 84 84 64
RUSSIA 90 99 125 167 107
OMAN 79 0 20 68 33
Total Imports of Petroleum (Top 15 Countries)
(Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country Aug-07 Jul-07 YTD 2007 Aug-06 Jan - August 2006
CANADA 2,510 2,360 2,426 2,456 2,328
SAUDI ARABIA 1,499 1,436 1,450 1,514 1,452
MEXICO 1,474 1,611 1,579 1,793 1,787
VENEZUELA 1,330 1,386 1,356 1,439 1,467
NIGERIA 1,208 906 1,073 1,035 1,146
ALGERIA 827 730 736 803 643
IRAQ 520 460 481 620 561
RUSSIA 416 525 417 485 366
ANGOLA 412 404 538 544 507
VIRGIN ISLANDS 320 372 326 377 316
BRAZIL 280 198 216 308 194
ECUADOR 240 172 201 292 275
COLOMBIA 175 231 143 131 178
UNITED KINGDOM 174 369 302 272 296
KOREA, SOUTH 142 131 139 169 93
Note: The data in the tables above exclude oil imports into the U.S. territories.
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