All About Oil
WMDs. Links between Saddam and al Qaeda. Nigerian yellowcake. Spreading freedom and democracy.
It was all bullshit. It was always about oil.
Remember this picture? It was taken during the mayhem shortly after Baghdad fell, 
when Iraqis were looting everything from art museums to weapons arsenals, virtually without resistance.
According to a news report from that time, "the only building US forces seemed genuinely interested in protecting was the Ministry of Oil."
There it was. The evidence was right before our eyes — the focus of our post-invasion concerns, and the reason for the war itself. But it was almost as though the connection was too obvious. The administration couldn't be that blatant about its reasons for taking us to war, could it?
Turns out they could. And today, a post on AfterDowningStreet.org underscored the obvious yet again:
Thursday, May 24 the US Congress voted to continue the war on Iraq. They called it "supporting the troops." I call it stealing Iraq’s oil—the second largest oil reserves in the world. The "benchmark" or goal the Bush administration has been working on furiously since the US invaded Iraq is the privatization of Iraqi oil. Now they have the US Congress blackmailing the Iraqi Parliament and Iraqi people: no privatization of Iraqi oil, no reconstruction funds.
Looks like the mission may be accomplished after all.
