If liberals would stop frothing at the mouth over GWB for day, they could become real opposition party again. The war was never about oil or Halliburton. It was about military positioning. We (the US) HAD to get out of Saudi Arabia. But we must maintain military presence and power in the Mid-East. We needed a scapegoat to make that happen and Saddam provided it.
You almost made sense till your last sentence.