In Defense Of Alan Greespan

Look, the best reason to go to war in the middle east is to protect our oil. Maybe that's not good enough for you (or me), but any liberal parent who drives an internal combusiton engine should look in the mirror and ponder their denial of where all that gas comes from for their min-van or SUV.

ThinkProgress posted this I think as a way of enraging their leftist readers. One is tempted to use the 'H' -word.

Greenspan: Because Of Oil, Saddam Was ‘Far More Important To Get Out Than Bin Laden’

In his new memoir, The Age of Turbulence, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan writes that he is “saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” Greenspan later clarified his remark in an interview with the Washington Post, saying that while oil was not “the administration’s motive,” it was “essential” to remove Saddam Hussein because of it.

In an interview with Charlie Rose last week, Greenspan went even further in his defense of the Iraq war, saying it was “far more important to get” Saddam Hussein “out than bin Laden”:

ALAN GREENSPAN: People do not realize in this country, for example, how tenuous our ties to international energy are. That is, we on a daily basis require continuous flow. If that flow is shut off, it causes catastrophic effects in the industrial world. And it’s that which made him far more important to get out than bin Laden.