Montecresto
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Unfortunately, it isn't some sinister plot, coercion or conspiracy. It's just willful ignorance, by ignoring truth, to allow the US to have influence in the area. Not so much oil, as influence. The US ignores a lot of bad things around the world to maintain influence. Saudi Arabia is no different. That influence translates to airfields, shipping security and a military presence in the region. The same reason we ignore the Bahrainis, the Yemenis and all the others in that region that allow us influence.
It's basic International Relations. Moore sees profit as the motive behind every bad thing that happens. It isn't that simple.
I agree with you. And the purpose for wanting those bases, clear shipping and influence, is to ensure the uninterrupted flow of oil.
(CNN) -- Yes, the Iraq War was a war for oil, and it was a war with winners: Big Oil.
It has been 10 years since Operation Iraqi Freedom's bombs first landed in Baghdad. And while most of the U.S.-led coalition forces have long since gone, Western oil companies are only getting started.
The man once regarded as the world's most powerful banker has bluntly declared that the Iraq war was 'largely' about oil.
Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and retired last year after serving four presidents, Alan Greenspan has been the leading Republican economist for a generation and his utterings instantly moved world markets.
In his long-awaited memoir - out tomorrow in the US - Greenspan, 81, who served as chairman of the US Federal Reserve for almost two decades, writes: 'I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimeline
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