Carrol:
Nail on the head again, Carrol. Tom White

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> U.S. oil comes from Venezuela, Mexico, & Nigeria, not the mideast.
> European oil comes from the Mideast. Japanese oil comes from the
> mideast. Some place in the Cantos there is a line or two about someone
> scrabbling through the soil of Persia looking for oil. (Iraqi & Arabian
> oil came much later.) Pound was touching there on one of the major
> sources of World War I.
>
> The outcome of the Iraqi War will be U.S. control of the lifeblood of
> the EU and Japan. We could be seeing the opening stages of a replay of
> sorts of World War I. The U.S. & England against Europe -- with the
> other players (India, China, Japan, Russia) to line up on either side
> depending on future events.
>
> This is the _only_ "rational" reason for this war. The official claims
> are pure nonsense, and no war being needed for _access_ to oil, but only
> for _control_ of oil which the U.S. does not itself need.
>
> Carrol