[lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 2 09:58:55 PDT 2011


On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Wojtek S wrote:


> But the Iraq adventure had minimal effect on oil flows and
> prices. I do not buy Chomsky's argument you quoted, but I do not
> think Iraq was "about oil" for the sake of global capitalism either.
> Methinks it was about a political chess game that the Bush admin
> played and won.

You may be right about Iraq - I was talking about the last 50+ years. But won? What did the US win in Iraq exactly?



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