It’s All About Oil
Six years ago, Dreamland co-host Jim Marrs said, "It’s all about oil." Now the Australian defense minister says the same thing about Iraq.
In the Independent, Kathy Marks reports that the Australian Defense Minister Brendan Nelson "admitted that oil was a major factor in the government’s decision to keep troops in Iraq" in an interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corp. When Australia joined the Coalition that took part in the invasion of Iraq, Nelson said that their goal was to fight terrorism and destroy weapons of mass destruction. If this happened in the U.S., it would the same as Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announcing that we had gone into Iraq for the wrong reasons.
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