Re: The truth leaks out

[k hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The truth was evident to anyone who cared to look at the website of PNAC or
other right wing  think tanks or who read any of the hawk's pronouncements
re the need for US control of middle east for energy requirements. Most of
the anti-war groups knew all along the war was about oil so it was not a
question of fearing that it was such.
    How do these admissions fit in with the Straussian Platonic lying for
the public good.?You arent supposed to lie and at the same time make the
truth public. That seems counterproductive.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:15 PM
Subject: 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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