Some information was recently declassified about the Nixon Administration.
The top-secret document reveals that the United States, under President Richard Nixon, was prepared to act more aggressively than previously had been thought to secure America's oil supply if tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors continued to escalate after the October 1973 Middle East war or if the oil embargo did not abate.
In fact, the embargo did peter out, by March 1974.
http://www.iht.com/articles/123419.htmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/international/middleeast/01CND-DOCU.html?hphttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/1973-j06_prn.shtmlI suspect, some of you will believe there's WMD in Iraq, regardless of what the current governement investigations find
Even if Kay comes out and says... ooops we made a mistake.
The present facts are...
The people who said they exist have not yet found them....
Doesn't mean they are lying...
Doesn't mean they are telling the truth either.
That's just what the facts are.
The US government (all governments) are always doing more than what the people really know. Doesn't mean the government is evil.
There are things... the people shouldn't know... for their own good.
U2 and SR-71 flights over Russia were denied by the US Government until Gary Powers was shot down in 1960...
And the CIA was operating in Laos... and Iran... and chile... and El Salvado... selling arms to terrorist to support freedom fighters...
oh the list goes on...
Perhaps there weren't WMD in Iraq....
Bad military intelligence.. perhaps...
and then... is it just possible... that the answer is perhaps the US had to deal with a 'security' problem.... or there are some other reason... not openly known to everyone...
I realize many of you don't want to think this - it doesn't fit into your mental box of what reality is...
You only believe what you've been told.... until it become common knowledge... and conventional wisdom....
What woud have people thought if Churchill announced the day after Germans bombed and killed 10,000 citizens... that Churchil knew about the raid... could have called for an evacuation... but he didn't want the Germans to suspect the Allies had the enigma machine and were intercepting Hitler's communications?
10,000 dead to save a secret.. that ultimately... probably saved 100 of thounsands lives and years of war.
Did any one ever suspect Nixon was planning on seizing oil fileds in 1973?
Well he was.
I'm not talking conspiracy theory... this is how it is.
Is the middle east a better place now?
Are the US national interests in a better place now?
Is America safer?