News, September 2007
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Greenspan says
Greenspan admits
September 17, 2007
Peter Beaumont and Joanna Walters in
The
man once regarded as the world's most powerful banker has bluntly declared
that the
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.'
In
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a
Greenspan's
damning comments about the war come as a survey of Iraqis, which was
released last week, claims that up to 1.2 million people may have died
because of the conflict in
More
than one million deaths were already being suggested by anti-war
campaigners, but such high counts have consistently been rejected by US
and
Previous
estimates gave a range between 390,000 and 940,000, the most prominent of
which - collected by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
and reported in the Lancet in October 2006 - suggested 654,965 deaths.
Although
the household survey was carried out by a polling organisation, rather
than researchers, it has again raised the spectre that the 2003 invasion
has caused a far more substantial death toll than officially acknowledged.
The
ORB survey follows an earlier report by the organisation which suggested
that one in four Iraqi adults had lost a family member to violence. The
latest survey suggests that in
The Lancet survey was criticised by some experts and by George Bush and British officials. In private, however, the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific adviser Sir Roy Anderson described it as 'close to best practice'.
Comment on the News:
This whole debate, whether Iraq was for Israel or for Big Oil, is purely academic. Who owns Big Oil? It's the same big banks who are at the top of the food chain of the Federal Reserve banking racket, the likes of City, Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank, leveraged by trillions of investment dollars in various retirement funds they control directly or indirectly.
The same people who own and control Big Oil, own and control Israel, part hobby-farm, part air-craft carrier for the military control of the strategic oil reserves in the ME. The Iraq invasion kills two birds with one stone: It creates conditions to fulfill the century old Zionist dream of a Greater Israel from the Euphrates to the Nile and it increases the control by the Anglo-Zionist Axis of Greed over the ME oil reserves.
Apartheid sucks - Dismantle IsraHell
Andrew Winkler
Editor/Publisher ZioPedia - All There Is To Know About Zionism
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Kucinich calls news conference to address Greenspan's stunning admission: 'the Iraq war is largely about oil' September 17, 2007 LAS VEGAS, NV - Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, whose long-ignored claims that oil was the principal reason for the invasion of Iraq, has scheduled a news conference here tomorrow (Monday) to address the stunning admission by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan that "the Iraq War is largely about oil." In his memoir to be released today, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," Greenspan disclosed, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." "I've been saying that for five years," said Kucinich, the only Democratic Presidential candidate who voted against the Iraq war in 2002 and every subsequent supplemental funding appropriation since. "Everyone from the President to my colleagues in the House and Senate who voted for this war have been denying it and scoffing at the notion. Now, the former Fed Chairman corroborates that I've been right all along." Kucinich said Greenspan's admissions, offered unapologetically and matter-of-factly in his book, raise serious questions about the judgment, the leadership, and the credibility of the other candidates who have been denying the war-for-oil argument. "They have to be challenged for being complicit either in their silence or in their blindness, and that's what I intend to do," Kucinich said. The news conference will be at 12:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) at Kucinich's new Nevada campaign headquarters, Suite C18, Quail Park II, 601 S. Rancho Dr., Las Vegas. # # # Contacts: |
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