Nothing to do with oil. Strike 1.
The entire intelligence community thought he had WMD's including the Russians, British, US, Israel etc. In fact the only one who lied about having them was Saddam, lol.
Nothing to do with oil. Strike 2.
Nothing to do again with oil. Strike 3.
Nothing about oil yet but let's continue.
A blog? You are kidding right?
Here is the lead story for that rag from today...
Special Report: The emerging history of 9/11 reveals that President George W. Bush’s failure to protect the nation resulted from neocon insistence that Iraq was the real threat, not al-Qaeda. The political relevance today is that the neocons want back into power under a Mitt Romney presidency, writes Robert Parry. -
http://consortiumnews.com/
Fox News has more credibility. That says allot. So this is proof that fact checking is not big on the consortium's to do list.
This is a good article. It shows that Britan was afraid the the US was going to squeeze them out of some kind of big oil deal...
That never came to light. :roll:
Those who claim that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 to get control of the country's giant oil reserves will be left scratching their heads by the results of last weekend's auction of Iraqi oil contracts: Not a single U.S. company secured a deal in the auction of contracts that will shape the Iraqi oil industry for the next couple of decades. Two of the most lucrative of the multi-billion-dollar oil contracts went to two countries which bitterly opposed the U.S. invasion — Russia and China — while even Total Oil of France, which led the charge to deny international approval for the war at the U.N. Security Council in 2003, won a bigger stake than the Americans in the most recent auction. "[The distribution of oil contracts] certainly answers the theory that the war was for the benefit of big U.S. oil interests," says Alex Munton, Middle East oil analyst for the energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, whose clients include major U.S. companies. "That has not been demonstrated by what has happened this week." - Read more:
U.S. Companies Shut Out as Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields - TIME
Read this well, lol.