Alan Greenspan – This War Is All About The Oil!
September 17th, 2007
It looks like oil and arms industries are laughing at the rest of the US economy, which seems to be going in to the shitter. And now, once again, in the middle of this ruckus comes another former high rank US Fed with a book. Alan Greenspan is a former boss of US Federal Reserve who served his post for 18 years. According to Greenspan – “oil was the primary motive for the Iraq war” – what a discovery…
Alan Greenspan is now looking to cash in with his unbelievable discovery by releasing a book which he entitled The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. The books is due to be published today (Monday) and allegedly the main topic of it is the war in Iraq, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and oust of Saddam Hussein which US and Britain claim to be the primary reasons for war, not oil.
At first sight it seems to me like Alan Greenspan is just looking for the opportunity to make a lot of money by coming with a biography to denounce the war as hypocrisy. What boggles me, though is that he wouldn’t come clear with it right away… Why wouldn’t he say so at the time? Was retaining his high pay job more important to him than people dying in war for oil? If he knew all about it, if he knew first hand the war in Iraq was not about the weapons of mass destruction, why did he not say so at the time? Why only now, that he wants to sell the book he comes clear about it? If he feels so strong on the issue, why oh why did he not say so at the time?
There are some positive aspects to it though – Alan Greenspan’s book might help wake up a few more Americans, which is never too late for. It is possible that the remorse eventually caught up with the dude and he wants to clear his own conscience so he no longer keeps silent about it. And maybe he wasn’t able to talk about it why he was in the office… but what do we know. Money talks!
I think the men with power will utilize their might to spin and discredit him, which will be fairly easy not that he is out of the office, because he “doesn’t know all the facts” anymore, does he? It will be just more damage to the US reputation abroad because there’s few high rank Americans who still enjoy international respect and Alan Greenspan is one of those few.
Now to the obvious – the facts are easily available and no one is “shocked” anymore that this war is in fact about oil, not terror. Unless you’re really slow, you’d already know that. However it is always a big positive to have a high rank fed come up and state the obvious. Even though we all know it and have known for a while, it is in fact sad there’s almost 10 million children who die throughout the world each year, yet billions are spent to kill tens of thousands in the name of protecting the few that might become victims of a possible terrorist attack. Think about it… Does it sound like “our people are worth more than your people” attitude to you?
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