Excursions on the Middle East, politics, the Levant, Islam in politics, civil society, and courage in the face of unbridled, otherwise unchecked power.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia: Bush Likens Democracy Effort in Iraq to That in Postwar Japan, and there is the oil
Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia: Bush Likens Democracy Effort in Iraq to That in Postwar Japan, and there is the oil: "Bush Likens Democracy Effort in Iraq to That in Postwar Japan - Los Angeles Times: 'Bush also offered a new reason for the importance of military victory in Iraq, suggesting that if Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab Zarqawi, who heads a branch of the terrorist network in Iraq, were to gain control of that country, 'they'd seize oil fields to fund their ambitions.' '"
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