Friday, April 25, 2003
More reading, from Mother Jones, "The Thirty-Year Itch." Mar/Apr 2003.
"U.S. strategists aren't worried primarily about America's own oil supplies; for decades, the United States has worked to diversify its sources of oil, with Venezuela, Nigeria, Mexico, and other countries growing in importance. But for Western Europe and Japan, as well as the developing industrial powers of eastern Asia, the Gulf is all-important. Whoever controls it will maintain crucial global leverage for decades to come.
Today, notes (the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA), G. Daniel) Butler, two-thirds of Gulf oil goes to Western industrial nations."
Which I read to mean the war IS about oil -- but for power not (just) for profit
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