Question to Noam Chomsky: Why do you
think the US went to war against Iraq?
2006/03/24 14:55 USA
Answer
from Noam Chomsky: Iraq has the second
largest oil reserves in the world, it is
right in the midst of the major energy
reserves in the world. Its been a primary
goal of US policy since World War II
(like Britain before it) to control what
the State Department called "a stupendous
source of strategic power" and one of the
greatest material prizes in history.
Establishing a client state in Iraq would
significantly enhance that strategic
power, a matter of great significance for
the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski
observed, it would provide the US with
"critical leverage" of its European and
Asian rivals, a conception with roots in
early post-war planning. These are
substantial reasons for aggression -- not
unlike those of the British when they
invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years
earlier, at the dawn of the oil age.
See the full Washington Post "Chat With Chomsky"
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