Sorry folks, this is pathetic. I was in the middle east at the time, and well before, and Iraq's oil was a non-issue. The real reasons for invading Iraq were just as the President said. This story is a very weak, economically unsound, conspiracy theory with no real supporting evidence, or even logic to it. Sorry, this just doesn't pass even the weakest smell test.
That's about what I said to the leadership of Veterans for Peace. I think I may have used the words tin foil hat.
Concur. Unless the real reason was/is to have an *unsinkable aircraft carrier* for future Middle East military efforts, as Great Britain so served for the Allied invasion of Europe during WWII.
Why would we need such a base? Oh, in the event of an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel, for example. Or a Muslum fundamentalist revolution in Saudi Arabia....