It was for oil? Fine. With. Me.
Oil was a factor in the war but not in the way that Greenspan implies. With the sanctions lifted, SH would have had a large revenue stream to pursue terrorism and weapons. SH would have been happy to sell oil to finance his covert war against us. Oil is obviously a vital commodity. But SH wanted to sell oil to the highest bidder. He would not have withheld oil except in a time of war or as part of OPEC supply manipulation.
Precisely! Would it be preferable that the oil resources of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, et cetera, be controlled by Islamofascistic terrorists? What an exquisitely powerful weapon of extortion that would be.