IRAQ: INTERVIEW

A-Infos: Of Course, It Was All About Iraq's Resources

Gulf News: Interview with Noam Chomsky

Simon Mars: Do you think control over energy resources was
the main reason for the invasion of Iraq?

Noam Chomsky: They didn't decide to invade Eastern Congo
where there's much worse massacres going on. Of course it
was Iraq's energy resources. It's not even a question.
Iraq's one of the major oil producers in the world. It has
the second largest reserves and it's right in the heart of
the Gulf's oil producing region, which US intelligence
predicts is going to be two thirds of world resources in
coming years.

The invasion of Iraq had a number of motives, and one was to
illustrate the new National Security Strategy, which
declares that the United States will control the world
permanently by force if necessary and will eliminate any
potential challenge to that domination. It is called
pre-emptive war.........

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