News, September 2007
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Kucinich calls news conference to address Greenspan's stunning admission that the Iraq war was 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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