It’s nothing but work and war for me these days. I can’t decide what’s more exhausting, system administration chore work or researching the motivations behind the coming very soon like it or not war on Iraq. So I got interested in the whole Oil motivation angle.

Reviving Iraq’s Oil Empire Top U.S. Goal
Iraq Oil at a Glance
In Iraq War, to the Victor Goes the Oil
The United States of oil (Salon- history of oil interests in the Bush administration)

The involvement of Bush, Cheney and Rice in the oil industry does not suggest anything necessarily incriminating. Except for Cheney that is.

Cheney, intentionally or inadvertently, went against his own edicts in order to pad his company’s profits. He told Sam Donaldson in August 2000 that, as the head of Halliburton, “I had a firm policy that I wouldn’t do anything in Iraq, even arrangements that were supposedly legal.” And yet, as the Financial Times eventually proved, Cheney oversaw $23.8 million in sales to Iraq in 1998 and 1999. Cheney, who collected a $36 million salary before becoming vice president, essentially profited from the destruction of Iraq that he oversaw as secretary of defense during the Gulf War.

It does suggest that this war is hardly motivated ONLY by egregious human rights abuses, or even weapons violations.

Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner debate US Iraq policy (Real Audio)

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