Lindsey Graham Flashback: Gotta Get That Oil

For example, neither white Bush nor “Black Bush” ever admitted the invasion of Iraq was about oil.
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President George W. Bush said in 2005 that keeping Iraqi oil away
from the bad guys was a key motive for the Iraq war:

‘If Zarqawi and [Osama] bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they
would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks,” Bush said.
”They’d seize oil fields to fund their ambitions.”

“We can’t tolerate a new terrorist state in the heart of the
Middle East, with large oil reserves that could be used to fund its radical
ambitions, or used to inflict economic damage on the West,” he said the first
time.

“Extreme elements” in Iraq “want to control oil resources,” he said at second reference.

“They’ve got the capacity to use oil as an economic weapon,” he said the third time.

John McCain said in 2008:

My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking
about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that
will — that will then prevent us — that will prevent us from having ever to
send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.

Sarah Palin said in 2008:

Better to start that drilling [for oil within the U.S.] today
than wait and continue relying on foreign sources of energy. We are a nation at
war and in many [ways] the reasons for war are fights over energy sources,
which is nonsensical when you consider that domestically we have the supplies
ready to go.

Key war architect – and Under Secretary of State – John Bolton said:

The critical oil and natural gas producing region that we fought
so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing
that supply or having it available only at very high prices.

“Of course it’s aboutoil; we can’t really deny that,” said Gen. John Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command and Military Operations in Iraq, in 2007. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan agreed, writing in his memoir, “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” Then-Sen. and now Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same in 2007: “People say we’re not fighting for oil. Of course we are.”

These outcomes were by design, the result of a decade of U.S. government and oil company pressure. In 1998,Kenneth Derr, then CEO of Chevron, said, “Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas-reserves I’d love Chevron to have access to.” Today it does.

In 2000, Big Oil, including Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell, spent more money to get fellow oilmen Bush and Cheney into office than they had spent on any previous election. Just over a week into Bush’s first term, their efforts paid off when the National Energy Policy Development Group, chaired by Cheney, was formed, bringing the administration and the oil companies together to plot our collective energy future. In March, the task force reviewed lists and maps outlining
Iraq’s entire oil productive capacity.

Planning for a military invasion was soon under way. Bush’s first Treasury secretary, Paul O’Neill, said in 2004, “Already by February (2001), the talk was mostly about logistics. Not the why (to invade Iraq), but the how and how quickly.”

In its final report in May 2001 (PDF), the task force argued that
Middle Eastern countries should be urged “to open up areas of their energy
sectors to foreign investment.” This is precisely what has been achieved
in Iraq.

Tell me what we got from Iraq from the the Bush wars ? Also, Afganistan ? Other than brave American’s killed or wounded. Anyone ?

Tango, that’s not your name. I figured out you are Dennis Robman Clinton. And just pissed you’re not Nikki Haley.

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