[lbo-talk] Would Gore have invaded Iraq?

[Shane Taylor]

kelley fwd'd from PNAC:
> • For that provisional government to control the largest
> oil field in Iraq and make available to it, under some
> kind of appropriate international supervision,
> enormous financial resources for political,
> humanitarian and eventually military purposes;

But what does this mean?  At one point, there was talk of using Iraq's
oil wealth to fund the "liberation."  Chaos, the poor state of the oil
infrastructure, the lack of electricity, etc. helped puncture that
bubble.


> And Saddam's supporters in the Security Council --
> in particular France and Russia -- would suddenly see
> a different prospect before them. Instead of lucrative
> oil production contracts with the Saddam Hussein
> regime, they would now have to calculate the
> economic and commercial opportunities that would
> come from ingratiating themselves with the future
> government of Iraq.

This is PNAC saying "it's about oil," for their UNSC opponents.

-- Shane

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