Iraq War Is All About Controlling The Oil

No shit, Sherlock.

I could never quite figure out why everyone believed that the Iraq war was about cheap oil, as was the assertion, for awhile.

There are oil men in the White House. Why would anyone believe that any oil man wants cheap oil.?

Does anyone think that the credit card companies want dirt cheap interest rates?

Iraq War Is All About Controlling The Oil - CommonDreams.org - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community:

AFTER WORLD WAR II, the president’s national security council propounded a policy that would shape the world’s geopolitical future: “Oil operations are, for all practical purposes, instruments of our foreign policy.”

More than a half-century later, that policy has not changed.

With the invasion of Iraq already secretly being planned, freshly selected President George W. Bush listed “energy security” as his first action priority.