WH responds to Greenspan: "The reasons we went to Iraq are well understood and had to do with wmd"

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/09/bush-vs-greensp.html

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Greenspan writes that "the Iraq war is largely about oil." That did not go down very well at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where spokesman Tony Fratto told ABC News he would try to restrain himself. But he still took a pretty good shot at Greenspan: "That sounds like Georgetown cocktail party analysis. The reasons we went to Iraq are well understood and had to do with wmd (weapons of mass destruction), enforcing UN sanctions. To the extent that oil has anything to do with our engagement in Iraq today, it is the danger that al Qaeda could obtain control of oil assets and use them to threaten our interests."

[rainy]

1. Impeach bush for war crimes! nt

[madokie]

4. then promptly seen his sorry ass off to the Hague

for a war crimes trial and nothing less, imo

[BridgeTheGap]

2. These bastards are still pretending that PNAC & neo-con agenda doesn't exist

and had nothing to do with this policy. Their reasons for invading Iraq?
1. OIL
2. Strategic Location (we'll never leave Iraq)
3. Creating a democracy in the Arab world (but not really - i.e. will they ever let the Iraqi people vote on our military presence there? Hell no.)

[endarkenment]

3. Ah the truth is in there sort of.

Reading carefully one can translate this as follows:

"We justified the invasion using a pack of lies concerning WMD".

"The occupation of Iraq will continue until there is no more oil to extract."

[Ilsa]

5. Apparently everyone in the US is now a traitor except for the Administration. nt

[IDemo]

6. Image of "our interests" here - >

[Double T]

13. The vehicle of choice by domestic urban oil warriors.

[Double T]

7. But let's make sure the Texas Mob gets a hold of those Iraqi oil assets........

and uses THEM to threaten our economic and financial interests.

[jojo54]

8. I'd like to tell B*sh what to do with his opinion, but I don't want

to be deleted by mods.

It's that kind of day and I'm in that kind of mood!

And Fratto, Bushco turned their backs on the UN, so don't go invoking their support (via "enforcing UN sanctions").

[rateyes]

9. I'm going to contact Fratto to see if he's interested in

some ocean front property in Kansas that I'd like to sell.

Puhleeze, Fratto, quit insulting our intelligence.

[thunder35]

10. What BS

they are in state of denial.

[OHdem10]

11. Common Sense tells us when Leaders say--It is in our National

Strategic Interest --- re anything in ME(Iraq esp)
it is oil. If there were no oil in Iraq, would we have
been so determined. Greenspam is correct on this one.
Now the problem has been enlarged. will Iran have
power in Iraq or weill we??? Oil is still issue.

[Solly Mack]

12. LMAO

doesn't hurt them to continue to lie ...they've gotten away with so many.

[predfan]

14. this is (was) a war for oil, for money, and

we'll have soldiers in Iraq as long as there is an American need for their oil. If we're to get out people out, we must become energy independent. The situation is Iraq is what it is, and those politicians who gave our nut President theit approval to go to war are as responsible as he is for where we are today. But the bus is so far into the ditch we cannot easily get it out.

[Bitwit1234]

15. Weapons of Mass Destruction

DAMN--are these people in the white house really from outer space? Do they believe that...the majority of people in this country still believe this lie. I guess most of them are as dumb as bush. Look at McConnell, Boehner, Jean Schmidt, Mitchell Bachman need I say more.

[PRETZEL]

16. Fratto is so totally full of BS

that it's a wonder he can stay in the same room with himself.

If this little gem wasn't so damn funny and contradictory in it's own right then the comment he makes a little later on that (paraphrasing) "We're in Afghanistan and they don't have oil..." is equally full of it.

Afghanistan has natural gas. And apparently alot of it.

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jbowen/phys148/EnergyCon.html

Oil, Natural Gas, it doesn't matter. We are heavily dependant of both.

[Supersedeas]

17. ignore the man behind the curtain with his fists around Kurdish oil

Ray L. Hunt and Hunt Oil should be a household name -- funny how the GoP/TV Media Establishment finds little room in its broadcasts to mention the Hunt/Bush connection.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. now well understood they lied about the wmds?

so.....wouodn't it be fun if Greeny hit back at them?