Tell me again how this war was not about oil
A lot of people have given those who protested the war a hard time about the “No blood for oil” signs that many of them carried. “You fools,” the chickenhawks would sneer, “this war is not about oil—oil has nothing to do with it!”
Perhaps the fact that Dick Cheney’s buddies at Haliburton are scoring very lucrative no-bid contracts to reconstruct Iraq’s oil industry does not phase you, but this recent article at the Guardian seems to suggest that the war was, in fact, very much about oil.
Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil
Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war.
The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz—who has already undermined Tony Blair’s position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a “bureaucratic” excuse for war—has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is “swimming” in oil.
The latest comments were made by Mr Wolfowitz in an address to delegates at an Asian security summit in Singapore at the weekend, and reported today by German newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt.
Asked why a nuclear power such as North Korea was being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly any weapons of mass destruction had been found, the deputy defence minister said: “Let’s look at it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil.”
(Thanks to this entry at DailyKos for the link.)
