Manipulant Greenspan

Tan previsible com la nit segueix al dia, la premsa socialdemòcrata està que no caga (amb perdó) amb una línia del llibre de 531 pàgines d’Alan Greenspan en el que diu que la guerra de l’Iraq es va fer pel petroli. Descontextualitzada i, sobre tot, sense tenir en compte el que ha dit el mateix Greenspan per explicar el que realment deia, la internacional mediàtica tira la pedra i amaga la mà. Tot s’hi val perquè vostà pensi que també Greenspan està contra Bush per la guerra de l’Iraq. Greenspan, certament, critica Bush per haver-se comportat com un socialdemòcrata qualsevol gastant més del compte i provocant un dèficit important, però en cap cas per haver enderrocat Saddam Hussein. Ho explica Bob Woodward al Washington Post:

Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview that the removal of Saddam Hussein had been "essential" to secure world oil supplies, a point he emphasized to the White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Greenspan, who was the country's top voice on monetary policy at the time Bush decided to go to war in Iraq, has refrained from extensive public comment on it until now, but he made the striking comment in a new memoir out today that "the Iraq War is largely about oil." In the interview, he clarified that sentence in his 531-page book, saying that while securing global oil supplies was "not the administration's motive," he had presented the White House with the case for why removing Hussein was important for the global economy. "I was not saying that that's the administration's motive," Greenspan said in an interview Saturday, "I'm just saying that if somebody asked me, 'Are we fortunate in taking out Saddam?' I would say it was essential."