Besides Iraq has huge oil reserves and one of the benchmarks for progress is an oil law that will give Big Oil advantageous terms for exploiting Iraqi oil.
Perhaps the Big Oil companies were not the prime movers of the invasion but I doubt that they objected and certainly they will make the most of their opportunities.
Anyway Bush has always denied that the invasion had anything to do with oil--oh except that he wants to keep Iraqi oil out of the hands of terrorists!
Cheers, Ken Hanly --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
> > My take:
> >
> >
>
<http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2007/08/lobbing-smears.html>
>
> Where you say: "If anything, John is a foreign
> policy conservative --
> not a neocon, a mindset that appalls him, but an old
> school American
> intellectual concerned for the fate of his country."
>
> Doesn't he know that there's no such thing as
> neoconservatism? Carrol
> Cox just told us.
>
> You also say: "We talked about many topics, with
> Juan and John
> locking horns over the role of oil companies in the
> Iraq invasion.
> (Juan believes there was some pressure from big oil
> to invade, while
> John said that he has yet to see any compelling
> evidence that this
> was so. I land somewhere in between. Centrist!)"
>
> Does this mean you've seen some evidence, only that
> it isn't compelling?
>
> Doug
>
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