7. SecState Straw to Blair warning that there's a good chance regime change won't lead to democracy or be any betterpic.twitter.com/8SHMetFD0h
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Obviously. Doesn't change that these docs say UK went to war over (a) recalculus post-9/11 and (b) pipe-dreams of intl-stability
And it certainly does not give anyone the right to appear squeamish abt CW we happily gave Iraq.
No. It's entirely possible Blair & Bush were given a loaded gun pointed at Iraq for self-serving reasons by bad people.
But - at least from these documents - they pulled that trigger believing it was for "international stability", not $ reasons
Dollar hegemony IS international stability. It's not about profit. It's about sustaining US hegemony.
True. But causation and correlation are not the same. These docs make no mention of UK/US seeking to monetize post-war Iraq.
There's no "here's how much money we'll make in Year 1 post-war". There's no "Exxon can have Kandahar, if you guys take Kabul"
Good. Tell that to someone who is claiming that's what this was about. I am pointedly NOT saying that.
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