Greenspan Bashes Bush

[jdobbin]

If anyone of those 19 had had access to a nuclear device or chemical weapons, the devastation and effect would have gone well beyond changing one's underwear.

Canadians are generally in favour of strict gun control. The decision to remove Saddam Hussein can be considered in a similar light.

I think most Canadians regarded Saddam and Iraq as a country that was a threat which needed checking. I don't believe many here thought he was the imminent threat that the U.S. was making the case for.

[bush_cheney2004]

President Bush is an utter failure when it comes to Domestic fiscal policy. Congress holds the purse strings, yes, but it is the President who sets both Fiscal and Monetary policy (Along with the board of governors). The one good thing i have to say about Bill clinton was that he was an whiz with Fiscal policy.

Oh sure...just ask the Russians...a real whiz he was!

[jbg]

I find it hilarious that people are shocked that he stated the obvious: that the Iraq war was all about oil. Do rational people still believe otherwise?

What is it that you have against the civilized world that you'd want to prevent it from protecting access to oil?

[jbg]

I think it's rather naive in a post-911 world to assume someone would not be a threat without tremendous oil revenue or influence. Nineteen guys with boxcutters made the western world soil its collective pants.

They also destroyed the World Trade Center along the way. Just in case you forgot.

[Guest coot]

What is it that you have against the civilized world that you'd want to prevent it from protecting access to oil?

Absolutely nothing. Though I do think if you send people out to risk their lives and die to secure it, you tell them the truth why they're there.

[Guest coot]

They also destroyed the World Trade Center along the way. Just in case you forgot.

You missed the point completely. I was responding to his statement that no one without WMD, nuclear capability or oil revenue would ever be considered a real threat.

[moderateamericain]

Oh sure...just ask the Russians...a real whiz he was!

Domestic..Domestic..as in not foreign.

[Higgly]

Saddam was a potential threat because his oil revenues - despite their supposed sequestration under the oil-for-food scheme - meant he had the means to be a threat. Robert Mugabe may be a dangerous dictator but he's no threat to the West. If Zimbabwe sat on several billion tonnes of crude, then Mugabe would probably be of interest to the West too.

Well OK, how much oil is Iraq producing now? I'd say the biggest thrat to the world's oil supply would have to be George Bush LOL

Edited September 19, 2007 by Higgly