The Invasion Of Iraq WAS About The Oil! WaPo Article........

[babsbunny]

Bush Says U.S. Pullout Would Let Iraq Radicals Use Oil as a Weapon

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 5, 2006; Page A06

GREELEY, Colo., Nov. 4 -- During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush and his aides sternly dismissed suggestions that the war was all about oil. "Nonsense," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared. "This is not about that," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

Now, more than 3 1/2 years later, someone else is asserting that the war is about oil -- President Bush

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/04/AR2006110401025.html

[acmavm]

1. Yeah, the extremists get control and they cut out the BFEE.

That's really the story.

We don't need to be oil dependent. But that's how those bastards built their fortunes. And they're gonna see to it that they get every last dollar from every last drop in the Iraqi sands.

[rodeodance]

2. He let that slip a few months ago but the Media has NOT played on it.

[LiberalEsto]

3. As if manipulating gas prices in the US wasn't

using oil as a weapon?

[teryang]

4. It is about the oil, all the oil in Iraq and Iran

The Bremer edicts were issued to allow export of Iraqi resources and capital by the multinational corporations without payment of fair duties or taxes. These edicts were made permanent by the so called Iraqi Constitution which was written by Americans. The "new" Iraq was designed to be nothing more than an American corporate colony.

Now, with such an illegitimate government, Americans can't seem to understand why Iraqis won't fight to defend such a central government and why they won't give up their militias. The reason is that the central government as an American corporate quisling has no legitimacy whatever.