When the Iraq war broke out, it was rumoured that it was 'all about oil'. In 2007 Alan Greenspan wrote a memoir called The Age of Turbulence: Adventures In a New World. In it he talks about the Iraq War. This article was published in the London Times on 16th Septenber 2007.
From Times Online
September 16, 2007
America's elder statesman of finance Alan Greenspan has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for war in Iraq was oil.
In his long-awaited memoir to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18 year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush's economic policies.
However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to proide most controversy. "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil" he said.
Greenspan 81 is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East. Britain and America have always insisted the war had nothing to do with oil. Bush said the aim was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and end Saddam's support for terrorism.
What does this mean to you, an Australian, whose government sent troops into Iraq without a second thought. And what does it mean to all the mothers around the world whose sons died there.
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