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Are these whistle-blowers too going to get 35 years in prison?
As for the oil meme, I can only repeat for the hundredth time that "war for oil" (in the context referred to by Wesley) does not make sense. If oil were a serious consideration, the US would make an effort to keep the region stable. The true concerns are clearly of a different nature: distratction from domestic problems, boosting (presidential) popularity by appeal to jingoism, keeping the industrial-military complex in business.
See my post Oil, and the links therein to further posts.
And at Zero Hedge, read more on this:
But the CIA documents, which sat almost entirely unnoticed in a trove of declassified material at the National Archives in College Park, Md., combined with exclusive interviews with former intelligence officials, reveal new details about the depth of the United States’ knowledge of how and when Iraq employed the deadly agents. They show that senior U.S. officials were being regularly informed about the scale of the nerve gas attacks. They are tantamount to an official American admission of complicity in some of the most gruesome chemical weapons attacks ever launched.
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