Really?

Oh, Alan, why wait so late?

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has shocked the White House by saying the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.

"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil," Greenspan says in his long-awaited memoir, as cited by Sunday Times.

I read this on AOL this morning. When I went back to get the quote for this post it was gone. Hard to believe, I know. Censoring on AOL!

Thanks a lot for the hot tip, Mr. Greenspan. Thanks, too, for waiting until you could do nothing about it like General Powell.

You crazy kids spouting words like personal responsibility and patriotism.

Yep, you put Bush above country.