Re: The truth leaks out

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Maybe it wasn't the truth.  Maybe they felt that going after North Korea
would get a lot of US troops at the DMZ quickly killed.  To say nothing of
all the people in Seoul.  Maybe it was easier to mention the oil -- which
everybody knows anyway --  than to say that "We are afraid of the consequences
of attacking North Korea."

Gene Coyle

k hanly wrote:
> 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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