One Tin Soldier
Posted on | November 1, 2006
There were a lot of changing stories about why we invaded and conquered Iraq, so it might be instructive to ask, instead, why we stay there. In an interview with Rush Limbaugh, da Prez let it slip. It’s about the oil, baby.
“Give me a second here, Rush, because I want to share something with you,” Bush said. “I am deeply concerned about a country, the United States, leaving the Middle East.”
Bush said that he was “worried that rival forms of extremists will battle for power, obviously creating incredible damage if they do so; that they will topple modern governments, that they will be in a position to use oil as a tool to blackmail the West.”
“People say, ‘What do you mean by that?’” The president continued. “I say, ‘If they control oil resources, then they pull oil off the market in order to run the price up, and they will do so unless we abandon Israel, for example, or unless we abandon allies’”….
Limbaugh called Bush’s comments “extremely visionary.”
We may be forgiven for suspecting that oil was always the objective. Hold your nose, if you like, and read the transcript.
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