NP? The word from the CIA: it's the oil, stupid

[Doug Millison]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/22/1032055034013.html

[...] France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They
should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq towards decent
government, we'll do the best we can to ensure that the new government and
American companies will work with them. If they throw their lot with
Saddam, it will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade the new
Iraq government to work with them. Former CIA director James Woolsey,
quoted in The Washington Post, September 15, 2002. So there you have it.
The Bush administration may be telling the world that the reason the UN
Security Council has to approve an allied attack on Iraq is because of
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability, but the real reason France
and Russia are being told to get on board the US military bandwagon is
Iraq's oil reserves. [...]