Trading Blood For Oil

By Bill Moore

Fresh Aire’s Terry Gross interviews ‘Blood and Oil’ author, Michael Klare

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At a family reunion this past weekend, a cousin of mine said he supported the invasion of Iraq, citing the need to oust Saddam Hussein and his murderous regime. I pointed out to him that the reason we went to war was not to liberate the Iraqi people, but to destroy the still-missing-and-presumed-lost weapons of mass destruction. Only after America spent $650 million in a fruitless search, did the administration switch to the liberation line.

I asserted that the real reason Bush launched the war was to secure American influence over the region’s vast oil reserves. Without going into details like the James Baker report, I explained how the world is facing peak oil within he next decade or two and that the Middle East is the only region where their reserves have not yet peaked — though some now question that assumption.

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