U.S. officials believed Iraq would set its oil wells on fire as part of a scorched-earth policy, and the invasion plan was constructed in ways meant to get U.S. troops to the southern oil wells before they could be torched.
The new report said, however, that while captured Iraqi documents show that there were plans made at the regional or local level to destroy the northern and southern oil wells, Saddam had expressly forbidden it.
Now I see. Bush lied about the burning oil fields too but it was because his Generals made the huge mistake of not reading Saddam's mind before they launched their attacks.
It is appropriate that AP is "Associated" with Yahoo. They are just a bunch of yahoos themselves.
Saddam did light off 7 oil wells....The Oil dumping and fires in 1991 was probably the worst environmental disaster in the history of mankind. No doubt the libs would have blamed Bush if he allowed it to happen.
Good read about it here:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/21/sprj.irq.oil.wells/index.html