Alan Greenspan's memoir, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," impugns the Bush administration's motives for the invasion of Iraq. Greenspan wrote, "I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows -- the Iraq war is largely about oil."
U.S. troops pull out of Iraq cities and Oil Production Service Agreements bid on the same day after 6 years of war. This wasn't about oil?(1 Answer)
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Nope. We actually buy less oil from Iraq than we used to do. We're just getting back up to the old levels. It also makes up roughly ...
Has the Iraq War made Iran a more powerful country?(6 Answers)
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I'm no expert, but I've watched an excellent documentary series on relations between Iran and the West, and I read the newspapers. http://www.economist.com ...
where is kuwait?(1 Answer)
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Kuwait is a small oil producing country located in the Persian Gulf in the Middle East. It borders Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
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Fast Facts
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Greenspan was chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987-2006
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A lifelong Republican, Greenspan accuses the Republican congress as having "swapped principle for power"
