Re: Greenspan: the Iraq war was largely about oil

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

sartesian wrote:
> This is the same guy who endorsed Charles Keating for a charter from the
> FSLC; same guy who stated that the Asian currency assaults were just the
> markets self-correcting; same guy who literally weeks before the
> collapse  of LTCM testified in Congress that such hedge funds were
> subject to such intense scrutiny and oversight by their investors and
> banks that regulatory intervention was unnecessary; same guy who...
> well, you get the point....

Actually, the war *was* about oil. In fact, Iraq was initially created
in an effort to control oil.

> When you say oil do you mean oil as a "use-value," or as a commodity and
> the profit obtained from production of oil as a commodity?

Both obviously since all commodities have use value. At least that's the
way that I understand Marx. You can only sell things that have use
value, excepting of course Celine Dion CD's.