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"No war for oil"
I'm not sure that anyone -- except for some hippie kid building papier-mache Bush-head puppets on the road to Bonnaroo -- believes Iraq was "about oil" in the sense of, like, pumping the stuff out of the ground and bringing it back to the U.S.
The fact that the invasion of Iraq was about setting up a base for U.S. power in an oil-rich region seems fairly obvious, and non-controversial. As Professor Chomsky famously noted, we wouldn't have invaded Iraq if its primary exports were pickles and jelly...