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Admiral Dennis Blair: "We Sent Troops to Middle East…Because of Oil-Based Importance of Region"

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By Steve Horn
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At the just-completed U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing titled, โ€œThe Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom,โ€ Admiral Dennis Blair โ€”ย formerย Director of National Intelligence, President and CEO ofย Institute for Defense Analyses and Commander in Chief of U.S. Pacific Commandย โ€”ย admitted what’s still considered conspiratorial toย some.

Put tersely: the U.S. and allied forces launched the ongoing occupation in Iraq and occupy large swaths of the Middle East to secure the flow of oil to the U.S. and its global allies, explainedย Blair.ย 

Blair began his analysis lasting just over a minute after a line of questioning (beginning at 1:02:56 in the video below) coming from U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC)ย about TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, โ€œenergy as an instrument of geopolitical powerโ€ and geopolitical tensions inย Venezuela.ย 

By Steve Horn
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Steve Horn is the owner of the consultancy Horn Communications & Research Services, which provides public relations, content writing, and investigative research work products to a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit clients across the world. He is an investigative reporter on the climate beat for over a decade and former Research Fellow for DeSmog.

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