>>> Kay said there were no WMD.
What other possible threat was there?<<<
Oh, there's gotta be a threat some place. I mean a nation like America doesn't illegally invade a sovereign state, losing 500-600 soldiers, seeing nearly 10,000 soldiers wounded and psychologically destroyed, killing 10,000 Iraqi civilians, bombing all sorts of infrastructure, etc. without a threat of some kind.
Perhaps this is it:
Possibly there was a very true threat of the need to lift the sanctions on Iraq, and from doing this there then existed a possibility of a flood of Iraqi oil into the market, and because of this oil insiders already holding set investment deals (whether North Sea, Africa, etc.) might not be able to as easily, if at all, command and control the price of oil and determine who gets it.
Think. Is there power to keeping oil off of the market as much as there is power to place oil into the market?
And what a bonanza for the oil capitalists--the Iraqi Oil Ministry Office, the only government building protected by the Americans once the occupation took hold. All other government buildings were ransacked, including those recordkeeping facilities that would be needed in order to help establish a voting base for a democracy.
Nice job, Bush! Nice job, Cheney! |
