tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post9177654747335284725..comments2023-10-20T15:58:32.114+01:00Comments on Monkey Tennis: Greenspan: The smoking gun that didn’tMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04660746207471021762noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-88837236530962866372007-09-19T11:52:00.000+01:002007-09-19T11:52:00.000+01:00Left gatekeepers propagated the myth the war was a...Left gatekeepers propagated the myth the war was about oil. The truth is zionists like Greenspan have dragged the West into The Middle East Conflict on Israel’s side, on the back of a series of false flag terror attacks in the West blamed on ‘Muslim Terror’. Thats the truth. Thats why you don’t hear it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-62093254817872542732007-09-18T17:31:00.000+01:002007-09-18T17:31:00.000+01:00Trackbacked by The Thunder Run - Web Reconnaissanc...Trackbacked by The Thunder Run - <A HREF="http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2007/09/web-reconnaissance-for-09182007.html" REL="nofollow">Web Reconnaissance for 09/18/2007</A><BR/>A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.David Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153191536633461987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-32833698532669262582007-09-18T16:51:00.000+01:002007-09-18T16:51:00.000+01:00Claiming there was only one reason is ridiculously...Claiming there was only one reason is ridiculously simplistic.<BR/><BR/>For example, I've always thought it was more about the "price" of Oil than the Oil itself - specifically what currency the Oil is priced in.<BR/><BR/>Wasn't Saddam insisting on pricing and selling his Oil in Euros? And more to the point, wasn't he also encouraging all the other Oil producers to follow suit? In other words, economic warfare against the status of the Dollar as World Reserve Currency.<BR/><BR/>Couple that with a Messianic zeal to export Democracy by force in an effort to stabilise the Middle Eastern Hell Hole - now what was that about the Road to Hell being paved with Good Intentions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-67526804460806249472007-09-18T04:11:00.000+01:002007-09-18T04:11:00.000+01:00Methinks the KosBats now believe the real reason G...Methinks the KosBats now believe the real reason Greenspan suddenly flipped was because Dick Cheney pulled him aside and did his own version of the "Shawshank Redemption" shower scene:<BR/><BR/>Cheney: Hey, anybody come at you yet? Anybody get to you yet?<BR/>[Greenspan looks at him in puzzlement]<BR/>Cheney: Hey, we all need friends inside the Beltway. I could be a friend to you.<BR/>[Greenspan, shaken, walks away]<BR/>Cheney: Hey... Hard to get. I like that... <BR/><BR/>Yeeeeooooowwwwww!!!!MarkJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15841040126998216800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-83070084428224017112007-09-18T01:46:00.000+01:002007-09-18T01:46:00.000+01:00Reliapundit: Sorry I've had to delete your comment...Reliapundit: Sorry I've had to delete your comment. I've only been blogging a few weeks, but I believe it's not considered good form to dump an extremely long post in its entirety into someone else's comments just because you're peeved that you didn't get linked. I've worked hard to try and promote this blog, and I've never dreamed of doing what you did to try and grab a few extra hits. Yes, I did visit your blog a week or so ago. I believe there were about ten bloggers posting, and I don't know if I read any of your posts, not that it's got anything to do with anything anyway. If you'd like to leave a more respectful comment, and your link, that would be cool. Hope I'm not being too hard – maybe someone who knows about this stuff could advise?Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660746207471021762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-64589424377564916262007-09-18T01:41:00.000+01:002007-09-18T01:41:00.000+01:00The Washington Post story today (Monday) implied t...The Washington Post story today (Monday) implied that the only thing Greenspan wrote about Iraq was that "war was about oil" sentence, which means that Bob Woodward (who wrote the "breaking" story) blew up one sentence in a 581-page book into a weekend's worth of nonsense.<BR/><BR/>But at its heart, the "no blood for oil" argument is fundamentally flawed. In a capitalist system, price is mostly irrelevant. It is set based on supply and demand. Saddam was pumping oil and selling it for whatever the market will bear. There was no indication that he, or OPEC for that matter, would ever consider shutting off the taps. They learned back in '73 that doing that caused enormous disruptions ... to the Arab states. While they were sitting on their oil, the rest of the world, after the shock wore off, responded like good capitalists should. They cut back. They learned how to make do with less oil. Fuel-sipping cars hit the road. Oil consumption dropped, and the market was flooded. The price of oil dropped.<BR/><BR/>So where does "blood for oil" fit into that? It doesn't. There's no reason any national leader would spend billions of dollars and risk political annihilation, merely to secure oil supplies already freely available on the open market.Bill Peschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257587479467531187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-41731464692873553112007-09-18T00:49:00.000+01:002007-09-18T00:49:00.000+01:00Got here from Instapundit and i agree that Greensp...Got here from Instapundit and i agree that Greenspans comments were taken out of context by the MSM (BIG surprise :).<BR/> KorblimeeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-42735800289331889922007-09-18T00:43:00.000+01:002007-09-18T00:43:00.000+01:00Don't forget, there are still many moonbats who be...Don't forget, there are still many moonbats who believe that we invaded Afghanistan in order to help the oil companies build pipelines across it to Pakistan.<BR/><BR/>I'm still waiting for construction to start.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-65766751989691953582007-09-17T23:50:00.000+01:002007-09-17T23:50:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Reliapundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12942299527008194753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365978314586477650.post-74715772325294311082007-09-17T23:45:00.000+01:002007-09-17T23:45:00.000+01:00Just for the record, Greenspan was never Secretary...Just for the record, Greenspan was never Secretary of the Treasury. He was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.<BR/><BR/>Otherwise, quite right. The lefty spin machine tried to make it more than it was.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14107703953043579119noreply@blogger.com