Greenspan clarifies Iraq war, oil link

[spanone]

WASHINGTON - Clarifying a controversial comment in his new memoir, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he told the White House before the Iraq war that removing Saddam Hussein was “essential” to secure world oil supplies, according to an interview published on Monday.

Translation: bu$hco showed him the nudes of Andrea Mitchell...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20817260/

[predfan]

1. ask your Republican friends what they're willing to sacrifice

for the war on terror; tell them we boomers will be considered the most selfish generation by our grandchildren because those among us who are so gung-ho on this war are unwilling to pay for it. the 12 billion doollars a month we're spending OFF THE BOOKS for the war would go a long way toward eliminating our need for mid-eastern oil, which, by the way, in our deficit economy we borrow the money from China to buy. Sickening.

[bullimiami]

2. i guess doubling the price of oil was part of the plan.

secure the commodity, double the price.