Thread: Congressman: "We're In Libya Because Of Oil"

Congressman: "We're In Libya Because Of Oil"

Monday, March 21, 2011
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Congressman Ed Markey said today: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/ ... f_oil.html

Well, we're in Libya because of oil. And I think both Japan and the nuclear technology and Libya and this dependence that we have upon imported oil have both once again highlighted the need for the United States to have a renewable energy agenda going forward.

Could that possibly explain why we're not letting the Arab League states take care of Libya? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/ ... of-us.html

Remember that Alan Greenspan, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 461214.ece John McCain, http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... 74014.aspx George W. Bush, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/artic ... _iraq_war/ a high-level National Security Council officer http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/07/ ... s-war.html and others say that the Iraq war was really about oil.

And according to French intelligence officers, the U.S. wanted to run an oil pipeline through Afghanistan to transport Central Asian oil more easily and cheaply. And so the U.S. told the Taliban shortly before 9/11 that they would either get "a carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs" , the former if they greenlighted the pipeline, the second if they didn't. See this, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... tm.05.html this http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/opini ... nners.html and this. http://www.ipsnews.net/login.asp?redir= ... enDocument

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/ ... se-of.html

Wouldn't surprise me a bit.

The reasons for Barack Obama’s intervention in Libya has never been really clear- or honest. The most commonly offered explanation given for bombing Libya has been the prevention of a humanitarian disaster. Sunday morning, Obama’s Abbott and Costello foreign policy team said that Libya was a direct threat to US national interest and at the same time that it was not. Of course, that does not explain why we interfere in Libya but not in other regions in which human rights are being oppressed- like North Korea, Iran or China.

Or Syria.

In 2010 Barack Obama renewed sanctions on Syria, calling Syria an “unusual and extraordinary threat.â€