But here he is again, explaining Iraq this time - oh, that's fine - in the Khaleej Times. OK, look. Don't ask me to explain. Maybe there wasn't a US paper that would print this thing.
About Iraq (among other things) he says...
But under present conditions, withdrawal is not an option. American forces are indispensable. They are in Iraq not as a favour to its government or as a reward for its conduct. They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
Yeah, you read it right.
They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
It's about the oil. Not WMDs or "freedom" or "democracy," or about what a bad boy Saddam was, or even about fighting terrorism, come to that. And certainly not about 9/11. About the oil.
There will be a quiz.
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