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Greenspan says Iraq is about oil!

Anthony Barnett, 15/09/07

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According to today's London Telegraph Alan Greenspan the famously long-serving head of the Federal Reserve has said in his memoir, “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil”.  Could he have been reading Paul Rogers?
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