There is plenty of evidence that oil had something to do with the Iraq invasion.

For one thing, the French had a lock on a lot of Iraq oil contracts, greatly displeasing the oil shaws of America.

For another, Saddam was fooling around with his outflow as the political whim took him, which irritated the hell out of those responsible for continuing the Great American Burn.

Lacking the imagination to see a real path to energy independence, the Bush assholes thought spending ten billion dollars on an invasion was a peachy keen alternative.

Had they used the money to develop and field infrastructure for energy independence they could have kissed Saddam and his oil goodby without so much as a frisson. But they don't think in terms of efficiency, or optimum futures; they think in terms of violent overwhelm, because that's the kind of folks they are. Force, manipulation, falsification of facts, overwhelm, political subterfuge, PR capers divorced from truth, and string pulling are their daily bread. They are, IMHO, scumbags.

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