Author: BooMan

Alan Greenspan told the Guardian that the invasion of Iraq was driven by oil. But his explanation is as delusional as it is wicked. Mr Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview with the Guardian that...

Why isn’t this the prevailing wisdom? In a survey conducted Aug. 17-24 for ABC News, the BBC and NHK, the Japanese broadcaster, among a random national sample of 2,212 Iraqis, 72 percent in Anbar expressed no confidence...

Gasp! What will Andrea Mitchell think? AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. In his long-awaited memoir, to be published...

Andrew Sullivan in the Times of London: Some cynics argue that George Bush is playing a small, domestic game of keeping the ordeal [Iraq] going so that the next Democratic president can be accused of losing Iraq – not him. But...

The Guardian says we’re going to bomb Iran.