Reply #13: I don't think they need to

[magellan]

They denied it, then Greenspan let this slip in his memoir late last year: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

There was little outrage, and would be even less now if Bush** actually came out and said it, because Americans are being crushed by gas prices. And sad to say I have the feeling people rationalize it that way: "We need the oil."

I'm also all but 100% certain the mad printing of currency and the hiding of M3 was, at least in part, to hike oil prices so Americans would be grateful for Bush**'s "genius" in invading Iraq to secure its oil.

Lots of people think BushCo are stupid and incompetent. Not me. I think they're clever bastards who should never be underestimated.