It’s all about the oil

In an Op-Ed in the United Arab Emirates Khaleej Times Online former US Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger admits that the US occupation in Iraq is just for oil.

But under present conditions, withdrawal is not an option. American forces are indispensable. They are in Iraq not as a favour to its government or as a reward for its conduct. They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

Hm, I always thought the US were there because of the WMD we all heard so much about before the war; because of the war for freedom and because the fight against the Islamic extremists... I could never imagine the US being there for the oil…

Via Wonkette