Dick Cheney

Áine on February 25th, 2006 filed in Politics, Quotations

“We’re there because the fact of the matter is that part of the world controls the world supply of oil, and whoever controls the supply of oil, especially if it were a man like Saddam Hussein, with a large army and sophisticated weapons, would have a stranglehold on the American economy and on — indeed on the world economy.” — then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, explaining the rationale for reversing the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990

Nothing’s changed since then. And that’s the real reason we’re in Iraq. Now, if only Democrats could seize on this (and the Peak Oil problem), we could wean our addiction to oil before it is too late… you see, China needs that oil.

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