A friend and I arrived in Paris in 2005 at the tail end of a an anti-Bush, anti-war protest in the Bastille. This poster had been left behind and I kept it. Bush was in Paris to comemmorate, ironically, the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII.
The war on Iraq (that edition of it anyway) was in 2005 only two years old.
I also remember the protests against the Gulf War in 1990 (Desert Storm: No Blood for Oil). This war for oil has spanned all our lives.
And now Greenspan, 81 and telling all in his memoir, admits ‘yes, the Iraq War was for oil.’
It’s an eerie poster: Baghdad – Paris – Gaza. It’s a reminder of just long we have tolerated this.
