[lbo-talk] Wolfowitz Speaks Plainly: Oil Was The Prime Motivation

[Guilherme]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil
>
> George Wright
> Wednesday June 4, 2003
>
> 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.
>

	lets be careful, i suspect he is arguing that iraq had oil
and therfore the means to be bad.  not that iraq has oil that we want.

-gr