Diese Meldung ist es wert, auf der Festplatte gespeichert zu werden. Kein geringerer als der legendäre Ex-Notenbank-Chef Alan Greenspan wirft der Bush-Regierung vor, den Irak-Krieg wegen des Öls angezettelt zu haben.
Damit gibt Greenspan zu, was historisch halbwegs informierten Leuten schon immer klar gewesen ist: Der amerikanische Überfall auf den Irak ist ein reiner Raub- und Eroberungskrieg gewesen und als solcher Adolf Hitlers angeblichen Feldzügen um Lebensraum in jeder Hinsicht gleichzustellen.
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Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
Graham Paterson
AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.
In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies.
However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.
Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East.
Britain and America have always insisted the war had nothing to do with oil. Bush said the aim was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and end Saddam’s support for terrorism.