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Originally Posted by Bobcat1
I read the link you provide, and really I don't find anything that supports your conclusion that the coalition entered Iraq primarily for oil.
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I never said they entered Iraq primairly for oil. It is just one of many reasons.
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The fact that this planning occured before 9-11 does not necessary indicate that a decision had been made to go to war against Iraq at that time.
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Well there was also the part where Richard Clarke mentioned that Donald Rumsfeld was trying to see if there was anyway 911 could be blamed on Iraq.
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In addition, the report records the views of a number of private individuals who had no part in the decision-making process.
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Exactly. If these people were a part od the decision process there might not have been an Iraq invasion.
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That the war had a lot to do with oil, of course, is a given,
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Then why did you ask me to prove it?
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but that's still a long way from saying the any country wanted to steal Iraq's oil.
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I never said they wanted to steal it. We've been through this before.
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But the plans described by these individuals, for the privatization of Iraq's oil and for the circumventing OPEC, it seems to me, could also be explained as just common sense contingency planning.
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To make these plans before 911 along with the statements made in the PNAC (we need another Pearl Harbour) is good reason to be suspicious about the motives of this war.