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>Paul Krugman, University of Chicago economist and NYTimes columnist
has a scathing piece on Greenspan and his revisionist history of his
involvement with the Bush tax cuts.</a></div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#666666"><b>OPINION</b></font>
<font size="-1" color="#000000"> | September 17, 2007</font><br>
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<font size="-1" color="#000000">By PAUL KRUGMAN</font></a></div>
<div><font color="#000000">If Alan Greenspan wasn't intending to
lend crucial support to the Bush tax cuts, he had ample opportunity to
set the record straight when it could have made a
difference.</font></div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>...Mr Greenspan, the former Federal
Reserve chairman, said in an interview with the Guardian that the
invasion of Iraq was aimed at protecting Middle East oil reserves:
"I thought the issue of weapons of mass destruction as the excuse
was utterly beside the point."</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>In the book Mr Greenspan writes:
"Whatever their publicised angst over Saddam Hussain's 'weapons
of mass destruction', American and British authorities were also
concerned about violence in the area that harbours a resource
indispensable for the functioning of the world economy. I am saddened
that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone
knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</blockquote>
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