Whether or not oil was the drive for war, should the American/world people come to understand, in sufficiently large numbers, that 9-11 was an inside job, the whole set-up would crumble.
Such an understanding is on a rising curve, however, with libertarian leadership often ahead of the left, unfortunately. Paul Z. *************************************************************** THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001, P.Zarembka, ed, Elsevier, 2006 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume23.htm *************************************************************** On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > Speaking of which, I was listening the other week to Amy Goodman & > Greg Palast pitching off Palast's latest opus during the WBAI > fundraiser. They were reviewing all the standard explanations for the > war - which boiled down to getting Iraq's oil. Palast mentioned that > in his book he reports that Bush deployed a Shell alum to run Iraq's > oil industry who promptly reversed Bremer's intentions to privatize - > he wanted Iraqi oil to remain in state hands. Then they quickly moved > on to more crowd-pleasing stuff. > > Does anyone know more about this? Why would a Shell oil guy want to > keep Iraqi oil in state hands? Goodman, of course, never asked Palast > to elaborate, but it seemed like the most interesting detail in their > duet. > > Doug > > >
