Iraq, oil and the Bush administration

San Francisco Chronicle by Jack Miles | Jan. 4, 2009 (Opinion)

"I am saddened," former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan wrote in his memoir, "that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

Greenspan was certainly right that in the Bush administration, oil has been a love that dared not speak its name. One searches long and hard in the president's many Iraq speeches to find a single occurrence of the vulgar word "oil." With a Victorian ... Full Story »

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by Kenneth Sibbett - Jan. 5, 2009

A writer insinuating that Bush & co. went to war for oil, kind of unpatriotic. Everyone knows Bush and Chaney, both Oil Men, would never sacrifice over 4000 lives, and over 30,000 wounded,(on the American side) for a few billion gallons oil. Everyone knows Bush went yo war because Saddam tried to kill his daddy.

Would,t it be a bitch if China winds up with the oil?