First, he has a point. But putting that aside for a moment, why are we allies with these jerks?
Reuters:
"No matter how exalted the aims of the U.S. in that war, in the final analysis it was a colonial war very similar to the wars conducted by the ex-colonial powers when they went out to conquer the rest of the world ...," Prince Turki said....
"What we read and hear from our commentators in America and sometimes congressional sources, if you remember going back a year ago, there was the issue of the oil reserves in Iraq and that in a year or two they would be producing so much oil in Iraq that, as it were, the war would pay for itself," the envoy said.
[He] indicated that there were those in America who were thinking in those terms of acquiring the natural resources of Iraq for America.
