Hans Blix: Iraq Invasion Over Oil

Here’s something that’ll probably not get much play on our mainstream media:

STOCKHOLM: Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has said he now believed the US-led invasion of Iraq was motivated by oil.

“I did not think so at first. But the US is incredibly dependent on oil,” Swedish news agency TT quoted Mr Blix as saying at a security seminar in Stockholm.

“They wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.” [article: AP- April 08, 2005]

Since leaving his post as the UN weapon’s inspector at the time of Bush’s Iraq invasion, Hans Blix has spoken out about how the Bush administration bullied the UN and then proceeded to invaded — even though many in the international community were urging Bush & Co. to let the inspections continue, specially given that there were serious doubts about the continued existence of the WMD which Bush cited as reason for invading Iraq. Of course, recent history has proven Hans Blix to be correct: there were no WMD, Bush & Co. ignored the warnings and proceeded with their war of choice.