Remember Alan Greenspan, one-time record tenure Federal Reserve Chair and then described Supreme Being of economics? Yes, that Alan Greenspan, who just the other week said it never ocurred to him that allowing folks to have way more in credit payments than they could afford would ever lead to, say, subprime mortgage crisis; so maybe not all in his judgment is sacrosanct and needs weighing against other data...in the nature of a Court giving great weight to the opinions of a State Attorney General, yet not letting same alone control a particular case or issue.
Today, Alan Greenspan per USA MSM has released a book in which he opines that come to think of it, in his well-late and reconfigured judgment, the USA went to Iraq with request its troops help Bush rape Iraq for oil...one presumes that vis a vis giving people way too much to repay, it now escapes Greenspan's observation that releasing a hot-button issue book could at least pull sweet, sweet money for him and without tether to anyone or anything else.
I consider that bin Laden has more "reasons" throughout his life to attack people globally than Carter's has little pills, that he appears to have attacked on 911 as Bush was going to Iraq to remove Hussein as then called for by everyone from Senator Durbin to the United Nations, without their worry about whether Hussein was pursuing WMD or not, and that since 911 and even before Bush went to Iraq in 2003, bin Laden update his lunatic reason files to focus al-Qaeda's recruitment and venom essentially upon "anyone who moves against Iraq by word or deed" (or so USA MSM and the BBC then reported)...see, he's this big defender of oil in Iraq, see, and that's why he can kill even Sunnis who so much as talk to the Americans or their allies...and the Americans leaving would admit they KNOW they were wrong, so stop resisting and join a pan-Islamic front against the West, which will be made to accept no more democracy, no more free trade, only the collectivism bin Laden and "right thinking global officials knowing the guilt of their peoples or sympathetic to radical Islam" will lay down in autocratic hegemony.
Hmmm....at home, some tell us huge mega-bucks will be ours if we just leave Iraq, yet they seem to lay long-range plans anyway that involve less commerce, accomodation of collectivist ideas as if the USA becomes just an extension of what's happening elsewhere, machines that vote for us, and so on. Now Greenspan chimes in, known on the GLOBAL stage as former Federal Reserve Chair (as if a Republican only, even if he also served during Clinton's two terms), saying he opines the USA went to Iraq to have troops kill Iraqis of all stripes so Bush and Cheney could rape Iraq of its oil...good thing Alibabjihad in Iran would actually do that if the USA left, I suppose.
What I see in any non-Conservative reactionary populism is that same is devoid of proof the USA has been raping Iraq for its oil, or intends to do so in future; if Iraqis of all stripes want democracy and diversity of oil producing nations so that they CAN profit from oil and explore other free trade building and investments alongside, bin Laden is hardly a freedom fighter agsinst them.
On and after 911, bin Laden attempted the lives of USA ALL Federal officials, military, and everyday citizens, immigrants, and tourists; it does not sound like a will to resist him or anyone even coincidentally sharing his lack of freedom and free trade dogma to cause an unsubstantiated GLOBAL inference the USA IS raping Iraq for oil, our troops are scurvy for that and too bad for those freedom fighters killed, and that global tough guys SHOULD have their way with the USA, further all immigrants coming here to share our fate since they love our land so much.
Wherefore, I continue to stand with President Bush, and every Muslim, Christian, Jew, Asiatic, Native American, African American, European, Hispanic, and anyone else opposing al-Qaeda or ANY terror as they build free trade and democracy in rejection of collectivism and rule by accomodation of aggressor dogma; as such, I continue to support adoption of the Petraeus Iraq report.