Comments on: The media’s spin on Alan Greenspan’s Iraq comments

By: Morgan K Freeberg

Morgan K Freeberg — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:38:34 +0000

NC Cop nailed it.

Bush-haters are very fashionable people. When something is in fashion, it’s big business. This is huge business.

And on January 21, 2009, it’ll be about as current as pet rocks.

By: NC Cop

NC Cop — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:24:21 +0000

What this IS about is Greenspan trying to sell some of his books. What a better way to get all the Bush haters rushing to the store to buy a lifelong Republican’s book.

Very sad.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:58:42 +0000

I think that Dr. Greenspan, regardless of his detractors, will prove to be one of the towering figures of the late 20th/early 21st century.

As the cliche goes, he’s forgotten more economics than most of us will ever know, and I’m glad he was there when he was most needed.

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:29:16 +0000

You know, if this war had been “all about oil” then it would never have happened. Except, of course, in the moronic fever dreams of leftists for whom the laws of economics are as malleable and open to interpretation as are the rules of logic, or civil discourse.

Had this all been about cheap oil, then we would not have spent billions of dollars and thousands of lives risking the oil producing infrastructure. Had this been about oil, the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to get it would have been to lift the UN embargo and encouraged Saddam to produce as much oil as he could manage. Had this been about oil we would have been dispatching wildcatters and engineers instead of soldiers to Iraq.

But those are simply truths, not The Truth, which is of course that the stupid evil genius Bush and his neocons cooked up the war just to get free oil. And the fact of no free oil having materialized does not validate The Truth. Which is, of course, all about creating a paranoid yet heroic fantasy rather than about any actual occurrances on this planet. For whatever bizarre reason these people would prefer to be living in a shadowy proto-dictatorship just minutes away from being incarcerated for thinking freely, than residents in a free society based upon respect for individual freedoms.

One of which freedoms is the freedom to spout off like an ass without any consequences other than the resigned contempt of those who are not asses.