07-09-2005, 04:43 AM
NOS2Go4Me,Jul 8 2005, 01:02 PM Wrote:There's no doubting every developed country in the world (and most non-developed countries) would kill for Iraq's oil.
But only the US and the UK had the balls to lie to there own people and go to war halfway around the world just to get at that oil.
Noam Chomsky Wrote:Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the more astute of the senior planners and analysts, pointed out in the journal National Interest that America's control over the Middle East "gives it indirect but politically critical leverage on the European and Asian economies that are also dependent on energy exports from the region." If the United States can maintain its control over Iraq, with the world's second largest known oil reserves, and right at the heart of the world's major energy supplies, that will enhance significantly its strategic power and influence over its major rivals in the tripolar world that has been taking shape for the past 30 years: US-dominated North America, Europe, and Northeast Asia, linked to South and Southeast Asia economies.
and if anybody else wants to read what Noam Chomsky has writen go here.
Laterz :)
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