Retired General John Abizaid admits that Iraq war is about oil

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Yes, ICARUS i corrected the quote to reflect the correct data

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thank you for your contribution DJmessiah , i didn't know that Alan Greenspan admitted the truth about Iraq war ....


it is strange to see USA slowly transform , into what its erstwhile nemesis USSR was

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Exactly which "False Flag" operations are you referring to in terms of Muslim on Muslim violence?

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I agree with you , the Entire Bush govt and those involved must be tried in international court in Hague for war crimes against Humanity and accrdingly be punished for being responsible of deaths of more than 1 million innocent iraqi people

ITS ALL ABOUT OIL BUT NOT IN THE WAY EVERYONE THINKS. the president and his cronies are all tied up in the oil lobbies. going out to iraq and iran and seizing their oil and selling it cheap to america would not be helpful to the oil lobby. now on the other hand if you cut production down in iraq and iran you drive the price of crude up all the way around so america oil companies reap obscene profits. thats why you got all this turmoil in iraq and they are interested in attacking iran.

Originally posted by BlueRaja
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How is expensive oil evidence of Bush lying? If oil were cheap, that'd be evidence you'd use against him too, that all we care about is cheap gas, and screw the locals. There's a huge difference in securing a strategic resource, and having the sole motivation be oil company revenues. The fact that oil was a determining factor I don't think has ever been denied, but the assumption of the anti-war crowd was that it was only for oil executive/stockholder dividends.

No, it was about much more than oil. But remains a fact that it's only revenue driven. This was not about weapons of mass destruction. It wasn't about freeing Iraqi people. It wasn't about the War on Terror. It never has been, it never was, and never will be.

This war was on terror was manufactured for revenue. The little guys that are earning Billions from this propaganda campaign are corporations such as security firms, arms manufacturers, oil companies, development companies, and anyone who bids a federal contract because of this "war". The big guys making ALL the money are the banks that own the federal reserve. In the end, all the contractors that are biding and making money can't compare to these guys. They're the ones receiving all the money from Joe Taxpayer via the U.S. Government. You see, all the contracts have to be fullfilled and the U.S. Government has to barrow money from the Federal Reserve (with interest) to be able to pay these bids.

And guess who foots the bill? You and I.

And since we all know money = power. I guess it could be said that it's being fought for world domination as well.

Originally posted by b309302
Invading Iraq for oil makes no sense. The U.S. is spending far more on the war effort then it ever would have on just buying the oil. Oil prices went up not down. We are still paying for the oil, and the military on top of that. It would have been far cheaper to just buy the oil without invading. Invading a country for the oil, then still paying market value for the oil makes no sense. We spent a dollar to make a nickle?
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It is about the oil, but not for our countries benefit. Its for the private (political) investors and stock holders of the oil companies.

They don't care if we (tax payers) pay billions upon billions, its not their personal money. They have nothing to lose, and everything to gain as their personal investments grow from the situation.

I for one believe the war was planned looong in advance.

Are you familiar with the Northwood documents?

Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a 1962 plan by the US Department of Defense to cause acts of simulated or real terrorism and violence on US soil or against US interests, blamed on Cuba, in order to generate U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. As part of the U.S. government's Operation Mongoose anti-Castro initiative, the plan, which was not implemented, called for various false flag actions, including simulated or real state-sponsored acts of terrorism (such as hijacked planes) on U.S. and Cuban soil. The plan was proposed by senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Louis Lemnitzer.

Then with that in mind...watch "Silverstein spills the beans."
It seems like someone cashed in on serious insurance money...

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Well, if this that's true, why haven't we taken the oil? We're there! Why are the prices of oil so high. Also, we get the majority of our oil from Canada. It would seem to me, we should have attacked them and just taken more oil. They don't have a military so I suspect it would be easier to go into Canada. Also, our troops wouldn't have to go as far, they could all come home for the holiday's......Just my 2 cents!

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excellent post , but i disagree to some extent . in my opinion its a war to capture major stratetegic oil reserves to ensure US monopoly

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even anti-war activist justin raimanmondo believes that

]Why We Went To War is an article that looks at things from a different angle than most present on this thread.

It'll probably go against the grain of most of the posts here, but its good to look at things from all sides before one makes up their mind. Right?