Greenspan Says: Iraq War Really About Oil

In his soon-to-be published memoir, Alan Greenspan, head of the Federal Reserve for 18 years, has made a truly 'startling' claim: "the Iraq war is largely about oil." In an article that I just read on timesonline.co.uk , it goes on to say the following:

"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."

I've said this before and I'll say it again; it is more or less a fact that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Nada, zip, zero.

While vaguely true, Saddam's support for terrorism didn't extend far beyond what he was commanding his government to do. To the contrary, Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden are extremes on opposite ends of the spectrum. The terrorists we are fighting now have only moved into Iraq since the war started.