Zogby confirms liberal media bias.

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If oil is justification enough for war, then why not come out and say it? Why wait four years? Why manufacture "just cause"? The money and lives spent on this corrupt war could have been used to find alternative fuel sources for our grandchildren. Or was it for something else?

9 billion dollars doesn't just disappear.

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"Again, the co's will not be stealing the oil or anything. They'll pay for it."

You haven't been paying attention.

With Saddam in power, the US/UK oilcos were not operating in Iraq.

With Saddam replaced with a supposedly grateful/friendly govt, the US/UK oilcos would have their opening. The recent Iraqi oil law is supposed to set up oilco-favored production-sharing contracts (much more lucrative for foreign oilcos) rather than the lease contracts.

So, as the PNAC/AIE/neo- stategy goes, the (cheap, quick, painlesss, slam-dunk) Iraq war (self-financing from Iraqi oil commandeered temporarily by US/UK) was primarily an oil grab where the US/UK oilcos where the go from NO presence in in the Iraqi oil profit flow to extremely lucrative production-sharing contracts for Iraqi oil that is 1) comparatively shallow (cheap to extract). and 2) very high quality (less refining cost). 100s of $Bs of profits for the US/UK oilcos for decades.

With all the other Iraqi war justififcations being lies, bull , disproven, in the context of the worst, most incompetent,sinister Exec in modern time, the oil grab is left as the most plausible.