{"id":76,"date":"2006-04-08T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-04-09T00:25:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T06:25:41","slug":"did-the-us-invade-iraq-over-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2006\/04\/08\/did-the-us-invade-iraq-over-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the U.S. invade Iraq over oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABSOLUTELY NOT, according to the administration.\u00a0 At least that is what we&#8217;ve heard so far.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we&#8217;ve heard various other purported reasons, such as the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because Saddam Hussein has shown contempt for the United Nations and for his deceptions and cruelties.<\/li>\n<li>Because Iraq has failed to co-operate with United Nations weapons inspectors and International Atomic Energy Agency.<\/li>\n<li>Because Iraq had nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for blackmail, terror, and mass murder&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Because we need to establish democracy in Iraq.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that Americans are becoming ever more aware of the severe oil shortages we will be facing over coming decades, however, now that it&#8217;s more politically palatable to say so, I predict the following:<\/p>\n<p>Before his current term is up, Bush will plainly admit that he invaded Iraq to keep oil flowing to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>He will brag that his invasion had this ultimate goal. I&#8217;m on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSOLUTELY NOT, according to the administration.\u00a0 At least that is what we&#8217;ve heard so far. Instead, we&#8217;ve heard various other purported reasons, such as the following: Because Saddam Hussein has shown contempt for the United Nations and for his deceptions and cruelties. Because Iraq has failed to co-operate with United Nations weapons inspectors and International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-and-afghanistan","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}