Quote: PenWing said: While I have no doubt the dollar signs are what motivated the administration to go into Iraq in the first place
As noted in the "Oil or Iraq" thread some time ago, I must respectfully disagree.
If our motivations were monetary, we could have gotten all the oil we want by simply declaring that Saddam was complying with our inspections, agreeing to lift the UN sanctions and cozying back up to him.
Sort of like we do with Saudi Arabia.
After all, half of Europe, as noted in the UN Corruption thread, was violating the sanctions anyway.
