Re: The truth leaks out

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] The truth leaks out

This isn't a matter of the truth "leaking out," since it was open and above-board, coming from a major player in the administration. Rather, given this context, it's an _expression_ of extreme arrogance: "we did it for the oil, but so what? we've got the power and resistance is futile."

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Proyect [mailto:lnp3@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:15 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PEN-L] The truth leaks out
>
>
> Guardian, Wednesday June 4, 2003
>
> Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil
>
> George Wright
>
> Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading
> White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those
> opposed to the US-led war.
>
> The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already
> undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass
> destruction (WMD)
> by describing them as a "bureaucratic" excuse for war - has now gone
> further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is
> "swimming" in oil.
>
> The latest comments were made by Mr Wolfowitz in an address
> to delegates
> at an Asian security summit in Singapore at the weekend, and reported
> today by German newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt.
>
> Asked why a nuclear power such as North Korea was being treated
> differently from Iraq, where hardly any weapons of mass
> destruction had
> been found, the deputy defence minister said: "Let's look at
> it simply.
> The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that
> economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country
> swims on a sea
> of oil."
>
> full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,970331,00.html
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