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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Tecoyah, the article does a masterful job of "connecting the dots" with respect to the players and their motivations. My opinion is that you might not be able to take this to the bank in it's entirety, but ultimately most of the information will be found to be true.
The motivation, in my opinion, has always been the mideast oil.
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I don't think that it makes sense as a motivation of invading Iraq for control of oil if looking purely at the national interest. I believe it was strongly influenced and motivated by neocon ideology (rather than the ultimate reasons given which were Human rights concerns, for which I will not give my reasons here). I think it's too big a risk to take invading a country for mostly inderect control of oil and perhaps the chance a price decrease (which obviously did not occur in Iraq). Not to say that military programs in west africa (training etc.) is not linked to increasing oil production there.