http://www.guardian.co.uk/corrections/story/0,3604,971436,00.html
Corrections and clarifications
Thursday June 5, 2003
A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the
heading "Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil" misconstrued remarks
made by the US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making it
appear that he had said that oil was the main reason for going to war
in Iraq. He did not say that. He said, according to the Department of
Defence website, "The ... difference between North Korea and Iraq is
that we had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the
country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of North Korea, the country
is teetering on the edge of economic collapse and that I believe is a
major point of leverage whereas the military picture with North Korea is
very different from that with Iraq." The sense was clearly that the US
had no economic options by means of which to achieve its objectives,
not that the economic value of the oil motivated the war. The report
appeared only on the website and has now been removed.
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