Well let's see what conservative Republican J.C. Watts thinks. He often appears as the conservative voice on various news shows, and he just happened to be on CNN's "The Situation Room" yesterday, September 17, 2007.
They were discussing former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's new book, in which Greenspan says, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."
And what did J.C. Watts have to say about that statement? This:
"Well, and I read today where the chairman was trying to explain himself,
and he said that he said to the White House that this would affect the global
economy because the price of oil obviously would go up, and people at home would
be paying $5, $6 a gallon for fuel, and, Wolf, I think we're kidding ourselves
and naive to think that oil didn't have, didn't play a role in it. I don't think
the President made a decision to say we're going to go fight for oil, but I
think, you know, that was kind of a subtext or kind of something that you had to
factor into it because of what it would do to the world economy."
So can other conservatives finally join with Mr. Watts and admit what Greenspan says "everyone knows"? Please?
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Also, I found the link at NewsBusters.org (click here), a site that claims to be "exposing and combating liberal media bias." What's ironic about them talking about this is that instead of being shocked that these conservatives were basically saying that the Iraq war has been about oil, the headline is "CNN's Begala: Michael Moore & MoveOn 'In the Center,' Bush 'Betrayal'."
They seem more concerned that someone would actually say that Micheal Moore and Moveon.org were in the center, rather than far-left, on this issue, than the fact that conservatives were basically backing up what the "far left" (or "center") has been saying.
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