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Originally Posted by DanaC
I didn't say 'get their oil'. I said gain a controlling stake in an area of the world that is important both geopolitically and in terms of natural resources.
'Get their oil' is somewhat simplistic.
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I agree with Dana. If the Middle East were not a significant oil producing region, we would have relegated it's importance to the same level as Africa. Corporations would still have fought over resources, but the CIA would have not felt it necessary to overthrow a government in Iran, and noone would have felt the need to invade.
Do the anti-conspiracy theorists wish to attempt to deny
Operation Ajax?
BTW Dana, I've been listening to BBC America chronicling Tony Blair's attempts to rewrite his own history, a la Cheney. He's been downplaying the same "Iraq had WMD's" argument he made and trying to make the same "We should/would have invaded them anyway" argument. The two of them should take their show on the road together, like Hope and Crosby.
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