As usual, Bush accepts no responsibility for doing anything wrong, or even making mistakes. No wonder he's president, he's perfect! But, then again, with God speaking to him directly, what would we expect?

There were NO weapons of mass-destruction and Bush & Company knew it - that has been proven over and over by so many independent sources. This new rational about protecting oil there... laughable to say the least. The trillions we spent killing and polluting Iraq with depleated uranium weapons could have been better spent here in the USA in developing alternative non-oil dependent energy instead. This is a sad, sad time in America - Bush & Company should he held accountable for war crimes.

The war is about oil & Cheneys no-bid contract by Haliburton. I said before the war started and still saying it now.

True, Bush & Co does not have fiscal restraint. They want to fatten themselves up the rest of their life before they leave their administration. They make sure that this darn thing is perpetrated until they are out of office.

I totally agree! I am from texas, the bush family is an oil family, lets make no mistake, this thing was planned right down to bush cheating in the first election against Al Gore. I read somewhere that Bush was in a meeting with Osama Bin Laden's brother on Sept 11. and all the evidence of those buildings going down because of internal bombs....and now we have all this positive reports coming out of Iraq- it is all propaganda and positive spin covering up what is really going on, WE ARE STEALING THEIR OIL.

The WH spokesmen get more nutty all the time. Fratto, whose he?, says that Alan Greenspan, ALAN GREENSPAN!!!, is making Georgetown cocktail party points in his book. Are they completely stupid. Who dreams up these rejoinders. Better to say no comment than go up against Greenspan who is one of the best two fed chairman ever!

Bush is a warmonger and a liar but Greenspan isnt much better. Greenie rubberstamped Bushs policy of cutting taxes, waging war and spending like drunken sailors all at the same time .He said it was just fine.

You just have to love the remarks made against Greenspan. Bush and his entire cabinet would not have an equal grasp of the issues, and it is quite apparent they do not! They are only 4 TRILLION in additional debt!!

Quoting from the article,"Greenspan writes that "the Iraq war is largely about oil." That did not go down very well at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where spokesman Tony Fratto told ABC News he would try to restrain himself. But he still took a pretty good shot at Greenspan: "That sounds like Georgetown cocktail party analysis. The reasons we went to Iraq are well understood and had to do with wmd (weapons of mass destruction), enforcing UN sanctions." Who is he trying to kid, everyone knows the war is over oil as Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or terrorist, and he had no WMD's an BUSH knew it!

My favorite from the article:

"On ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that although he has "a lot of respect for Mr. Greenspan," he disagrees with him. Gates said 'I know the same allegation was made about the Gulf War in 1991 and I just don't believe it's true.'"

Gates can disagree all he wants, but I'll take Greenspan's word as we already know the war is about oil! In addition, Gates comes off as an idiot as the Gulf war was about throwing Iraq out of Kuwait. Does he really think we are that stupid, or perhaps he just doesn't know what he is talking about, as usual!

It is still about oil! The Iraq Study Group recommended that we keep troops in Iraq (Forever?) to "Protect Our Assets!" The Republicans want to pass this garbage, however the only asset there is in Iraq is oil! I don't understand why they think we are stupid! They may be, but we are not dumb enough to buy anything Bush and his cronies say. They are all liars!

Uh, the war wasnt about oil. I guess thats why the first thing the military did was take over the oil fields and sell them (for cheap) to US oil companies. No, it was NEVER about oil.

Rush, Hanity and other have been e-mailed their talking points from the White House Propaganda Ministry. The attacks on Alan will begin tomorrow on Fox News. By six EST we will see their mantra parroted here by a few wiling idiots.

How can any sane person without laughing say that Cheney and Bush has any d... concern about this country and the citizens living in it.
Look who is paying the price for his arrogant , selfish , corruption and destruction on our nation.
Look who is reaping the wealth , power and control of this country from cheney's actions and policies.
If you have half a brain the BS from this administration smells to high heaven and hits you in the face.

Sure, Iraq was about oil from the beginning, but why invade Iraq? Remember the neo-con's plan? It was Iraq first and as soon as possible thereafter Iran and Syria would follow. Oilman Bush must have known that an attack on Iran would bring great uncertainty to the world's crude oil market for and unpredictable length of time and if he did not understand that, the "Seven Sisters" would have surely told him so. Did he really believe that Iranian oil export could be restored to the market within a few months? (The oft-heard argument that since WE do not buy crude from Iran WE will not suffer shortfalls is misleading because the current buyers of Iranian oil would immediately begin to buy crude in "our" markets). In any event, oil from Iraq might just have compensated for the transient loss from Iran to keep gas prices in the USA within reasonable bounds. Israel's current critics of Bush are wrong. Iran WAS the major target from the beginning and Iraq was merely a convenient stepping stone with lots of black gold in the ground. "Nobody could have predicted then that it would be a slippery stone" (freely adapted from General Petraeus). I wonder what the "Seven Sisters" tell President Bush today about "regime change in Iran"! I bet they do not like his bluster one bit.

They will go on denying the obvious to their dieing days. The portion of America which is paying attention is not fooled by these criminals. I just hope that they can be driven out of power before the ammount of damage they do increases to an unmanagable level.

The War was all about the long previous Neocon motive of creating and keeping a permanent presence in Iraq for the oil, military and political benefits of "stabilizing" the region in a pro-neocon US regime's favor. The WMD excuse is a tired, exposed joke of a fraud. Using the UN is also a ridiculous joke as the Bush regime had already before, during and after kept a consistant disdain towards that Institution. Using Gen Powell as an unknowing patsy in the UN was a brilliant strategic move, but to still rely on the old trick as a factual basis for War only further shows the persistent evilness and lying nature of the current US regime.

Will someone in the recognized news media please PLEASE come out with a well researched and documented report on how much - when all is said and done, when Bush & Company leave office - how much each of them will have persunally profited from this war, from the oil, from it all. Aren't there conflict of interest laws or something similar that prevents politicians from profiting from their positions? Seems as if Martha Stewart get nailed these guys should be too.

All you morons who have been Bush-bashing as usual would be talking differently if their son or daughter or other loved one had been raped and murdered by Islamic terrorist in the years since 9/11 (which would of happened (and still could) if we hadn't been kicking butt since then)

Hey "Smarter" Guy - in fact, my wife's first cousin was trapped in World Trade Tower 2 when it went down. But sacrificing another 3000 Americans - on top of that day in 2001 - by causing a mess at Iraq doesn't add up to "kicking butt" or any kind of good value deal for America.

Lets see..the US news media, just becomming aware of these staggering new developments (blood for oil!!)from such a reputable, virtually unimpeachable source, with such extradinary significance, will want to immediately investigate this matter further and promptly report their findings to the American people...NOT a chance. Until US citizens boycott the products supporting these corporate behemeths, picket their studios, write letters, contact local lawmakers the charades will continue unimpeded. Its time for the truth!

Size of the Al Qaeda Terrorist Force in Iraq that can not be contained with 200,000 Iraqi Security Forces that can operate with minimal Allied Support(50,000 US Troops, 5,000 Allied Troops:

The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), which arguably has the best track record for producing accurate intelligence assessments, last year estimated that AQI's membership was in a range of "more than 1,000." When compared with the military's estimate for the total size of the insurgency—between 20,000 and 30,000 full-time fighters—this figure puts AQI forces at around 5 percent.
When turning to the question of manpower, military officials told the New York Times in August that of the roughly 24,500 prisoners in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq (nearly all of whom are Sunni), just 1,800—about 7 percent—claim allegiance to al-Qaeda in Iraq. Moreover, the composition of inmates does not support the assumption that large numbers of foreign terrorists, long believed to be the leaders and most hard-core elements of AQI, are operating inside Iraq. In August, American forces held in custody 280 foreign nationals—slightly more than 1 percent of total inmates.

What's the real number of Al Qaeda in Iraq still on the "BATTLEFIELD"? Apparently it is less than 2,000 yet we need 170,000 troops and the help of 200,000 Iraqi Security Forces for another to keep them at bay until next fall. Then over 50,000 US troops and over 350,000 Iraqi Security Forces will be needed for the foreseeable future.
Give me a break!

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0710.tilghman.html

The war in Iraq has and always will be about the flow of Middle Eastern oil into the United States and the western hemisphere. I just wish that all Americans knew the truth about what is happening over here in Iraq. The U.S. military has been ordered to carry out the president’s dirty work and the loyalty of the military is being abused. The military is dying in the name of oil, not preserving America's freedom. The U.S. presence in Iraq is keeping oil out of the hands of the Russians, Chinese, French and Japanese whom Saddam Hussein had oil exploration contracts with. These contracts were going to be honored once the sanctions expired. The intent of the invasion was to capture or kill Saddam Hussein and nullify the contracts Iraq had made in order to protect our "National Interest". There were never any weapons of mass destruction nor was terrorism an issue in Iraq until we invaded. The sole purpose of this man’s presidency was invading Iraq. This is why the 2000 Presidential election was so critical for GWB, which explains why it was a stolen election from the very beginning.

What kind of fools does Bush's goons think we are? It's always been oil, just like Vietnam (the oil reserves off the coast are vast) it's oil.

Many years ago I remember my 90 year-old mother saying once Tito died Yugoslavia would explode into ethnic wars and the world would stand by and do nothing and that is exactly what happened; we did nothing until the world embarrassed the US into stepping in. Why didn't we go in sooner? Because they had no oil. Same with Somalia - no oil - the US walked away. If Iraq didn't have oil the US would ignore it.

If you want to delve deeper into the effects of The US's oil diplomacy find a copy of The Seven Sisters, The Great Oil Companies and the World They Made by Anthony Sampson. Written in 1975, it tracks the history of the US and European activities in the middle east after WWII where the major oil companies (the Seven Sisters Exxon (Esso), Shell, BP, Gulf, Texaco, Mobil, Socal (Chevron) ended up as the de facto diplomats so the US could gain access to the oil while supporting the new state of Israel.

The oil companies became the conduit for "aid" for the undeveloped and backward sheikdoms and kingdoms of the desert. Big incentives and special tax treatment for the oil companies made sure that the Arab states got development help indirectly; while Washington handed out millions to Israel.

The lying is beyond belief and so blantant! It's just disgusting.

Let me give a Buffalo losers analysis. It was about oil. If Iraq had no oil we wouldn't be there. Oh other things like looting the US treasury were involved. Getting the US troops out of Saudi Arabia. But at the core it was Oil.

Realamerica1
That was the most lucid explanation i have read yet it puzzles me why the rest of this nation is completely unable to view bush, cheney and a complicit congress wether democrat or republican through such unobstructed lenses. I get massively frustrated when intellegent posters on so called liberal blogs can not figure out why democrats continue to enable bush and cheney. The democrats are just as tied to the oil industry as the republicans they are just more subtle about it.

I guess Greenspan is just another typical blowhard who has no idea what goes in on the upper reaches of intellectual Washington as typified by Bush and his cohort of chickenhawks.

Anyone can easily discern that 1991's little war was simply a humanitarian mission and the fact that US troops only protected the oil ministry in 2003 and nothing else is just a weird coincidence.

Operation Iraqi Liberation had very little to do with oil. It was about non-existent WMDs.

Let's see...Fratto is a talking head and Greenspan was the head of the Federal Reserve for how many years??
You figure out who knows the facts and who doesn't....

Maybe we will all get lucky and Greenspan will counter the Whitehouse attacks on his credibility by going a bit further. I am confident He knows all about the President's connection to 9/11. If he tells the people Bush worked closely with his friend bin Laden to enact the Trade Center attacks people would prabably listen. Never forget the Penagon's Project Able Danger that identified the plot way before the attacks. Information which was conveniently ignored allowing 9/11 to occur. The attack was a dream come true for the Bush administration's hawks and their long standing agenda.

Greenspan should have speak when he still has the power to change things. Now, it's too late. He just want to sell his book.

If y'all are so smart, and y'all know Bush knew this and that and was in on it why then you don't do something?

Well well, the truth hurts. You haven't seen nothing. Wait until the current Generals write their books, like Colin Powell, the rest of thr truth will come out. Do you think they would speak out now and put their promotions on the line or their pension????? If you worked for a living, did you ever speak out against your boss ???? If you did how long did you last???

Isn't it a shame? Someone else is lying about GWB and his administration. Why does everybody pick on him so much? Poor baby! He's just a poor, dumb cowboy trying to get along in the big city. Why is it that every time something else comes out about GWB and his merry band of misfits that the accusors are all lying? I guess we are just to take GWB's word that he is the only one telling the truth about Iraq. That'll be the day - he is the biggest liar, shirker and irresponsible "thing" that has ever hit the WH. I refuse to call him a man, a man admits his mistakes, corrects them, and finds better ways to do things. He is a lying, hypocritical "thing" who cares nothing about human life.

The former Treasury Sec. O'Neill said that Bush had always planned to invade Iraq; talked about it, talked about it, until 911 presented him and the neocons with the rationale. Saddam had no link with 911; Bin Laden was the mastermind but it was not relevant. Bush and Cheney want the oil. Cheney had alredy "distributed" to favorite oil cronies their "areas" of interest. Hunt Oil recently signed a contract with the Kurds. when Saddam was alive, he dictated the terms of the oil contract. Now, the oil fields and its revenue are the main reason the Shia government of Maliki is hesitating to reconcile with the Sunnis who also want a portion of the oil. Bush and cronies also want a portion. US troops are dying for oil; not for democracy. That's crap.

this whole thing is about. hunt oil owns the contracts in northern Iraq. It just so happens the owner of hunt oil is a longtime bush family friend.

So, it wasn't originally about the oil, but NOW it is, because the terrorists (who who had not operational presence in Iraq until we invaded)might get the oil. How convenient. It must be nice to have everything fall into place just right when every public justification for the war has proven false. Ego based reality: Whatever I want is the right thing.

the so called news needs to step up and talk about the oil. They never bring up this topic. If i here one more person call the news left wing i will scream. they are anything but left.

No offense guys, but it seems to be unanimous. 95% of you agree it was all about the oil. But your representatives in congress and your congressional watchdogs in the media are more in the 10% range. Seems to me congress and the media should know better than you. The only alternative is that your congressional reps aren't so representative and your watchdogs in the media aren't so watchful. In my opinion, you guys in the states are currently the subjects of the most sophisticated propaganda efforts ever. Don't blame yourselves or your country men/women for their confusion. Any citizenry would have difficulty sorting their way thru such propaganda. Good luck!

Remember Kuwait, scud missiles in Israel, Americans (not just men, but women and children, too) on the four airliners forced to die by Muslim terrorists, along with the Americans in the World Trade Towers, the Pentagon, and the rescuers. (This is not to mention the previous attempt on the Trade Towers in 1993.) Iraq supported the terrorists! Oil makes the world go round! With Muslim terrorists coming to live in the U.S., I think there is a plan maybe similar to the massacre of the Tutsis by the Hutu's in Rowanda. With Saddam and sons out of the way, U.S. enemies such as the terrorists, Russia, and China have three less compadres on their team in which to bring down the U.S.

From the comments posted here, Bush is dumber than rocks, yet pulled off 9-11 and hid it from everyone (TROOTHERS don't count, since all that tinfoil messes up their brainwaves.) and also started a war for his family friends, yet again there is no proof. Which is it, leftists, dumb or genius?

It would be a bit tolerable ifGeorge Bush and his criminal gang wanted Iraqi oil for America. But they want the oil for Oil companies!