Of course it was about oil, or at least in part. Every war in the history of the world since oil was being used has been about oil. Besides, oil and terror are part of the same issue in the Middle East.
And even before that, wars were about whatever the natural resources of the day were. Takes adults to admit this.
Yes, I suppose it tales adults to admit the real reasons a CIC will send someone’s children into harm’s way.
But I don’t remember a discussion about the free flow of oil. ‘Regime change - Saadam’s gotta go!’; ‘Gotta get rid of WMD’s’; ‘We’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here’...
Dosen’t seem to be too many ‘adults’ in the Bush Administration.
Bush Sr. went in to save Kuwait from Iraqui aggression. Because of oil. But we all knew what he was doing. And GHWB intentionally stopped short of invading Iraq. And for the same reasons he told Junior to lay off.
So, while it’s cute to say ‘everybody knows that wars are more or less about natural resources’, fact it the Bushies painted a much different picture, and it flew with the public because of 9/11, even though they changed their story about why we were over there.
Pat Tillman would NOT have volunteered to go to Iraq if he wasn’t fooled into thinking it was all about retaliation for terrorist attacks on US soil. And he would be alive today.