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2005-11-26 17:54:07 UTC
2005-11-26
War on Iraq: Not Oil but Israel
Americans die while Zionists lie
by Stepehen J. Sniegoski
The most popular argument of the critics of the Iraq war has been that
the United States went to war for oil - that is, that the war had
nothing to do with combating terrorism. Writing in the Christian
Science Monitor before the war, Brendan O'Neill reported that "for
many in the antiwar movement, the idea that the Bushies' plan to
invade the Gulf to get their greasy hands on more oil has become an
article of faith, an unquestionable truth repeated like a mantra."
Among those believers is America's preeminent left-wing war critic,
Noam Chomsky: "Of course it was Iraq's energy resources. It's not even
a question. Iraq's one of the major oil producers in the world. It has
the second largest reserves and it's right in the heart of the Gulf's
oil-producing region, which U.S. intelligence predicts is going to be
two thirds of world resources in coming years."
That goes against what I regard as the fundamental reason for the war:
the war was led by neoconservatives and fought in the interests of
Israel, at least as Likudniks envision Israel's interests. It is all
well-documented, though the neocons imply that Israeli interests
coincide with those of the United States. But as I point out in my
article on the subject - and this fact is on the public record, too -
the original idea for the war was conceived in Israel. Moreover, the
war achieved the goal hoped for by the Likudniks - destabilization of
the Middle East.
article continued at
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_oilwar.htm
War on Iraq: Not Oil but Israel
Americans die while Zionists lie
by Stepehen J. Sniegoski
The most popular argument of the critics of the Iraq war has been that
the United States went to war for oil - that is, that the war had
nothing to do with combating terrorism. Writing in the Christian
Science Monitor before the war, Brendan O'Neill reported that "for
many in the antiwar movement, the idea that the Bushies' plan to
invade the Gulf to get their greasy hands on more oil has become an
article of faith, an unquestionable truth repeated like a mantra."
Among those believers is America's preeminent left-wing war critic,
Noam Chomsky: "Of course it was Iraq's energy resources. It's not even
a question. Iraq's one of the major oil producers in the world. It has
the second largest reserves and it's right in the heart of the Gulf's
oil-producing region, which U.S. intelligence predicts is going to be
two thirds of world resources in coming years."
That goes against what I regard as the fundamental reason for the war:
the war was led by neoconservatives and fought in the interests of
Israel, at least as Likudniks envision Israel's interests. It is all
well-documented, though the neocons imply that Israeli interests
coincide with those of the United States. But as I point out in my
article on the subject - and this fact is on the public record, too -
the original idea for the war was conceived in Israel. Moreover, the
war achieved the goal hoped for by the Likudniks - destabilization of
the Middle East.
article continued at
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_oilwar.htm