Yur Breakin my balz, Hans!
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."
Yur Breakin my balz, Hans!
Dang I thought we were there to collect up all the cheap Kalashnikov’s so that we could sell them as parts kits.. boy howdy I sure was wrong on that one...
Thanks, my understanding is that Iran has only one (high-value-target) gasoline refinery?
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