"swimming" in oil

[pynchonoid]

Credit Bush and his pals for knowing how to rub it in.
 Having lied about Saddam's WMD capabilities in order
to stampede the country to war, now they cop to the
real reason after all.


<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,970331,00.html>

Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil 

George Wright
Wednesday June 4, 2003 

Oil was the main reason for military action against
Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed,
confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the
US-led war.

The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who
has already undermined Tony Blair's position over
weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them
as a "bureaucratic" excuse for war - has now gone
further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is
"swimming" in oil.

The latest comments were made by Mr Wolfowitz in an
address to delegates at an Asian security summit in
Singapore at the weekend, and reported today by German
newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt.

Asked why a nuclear power such as North Korea was
being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly any
weapons of mass destruction had been found, the deputy
defence minister said: "Let's look at it simply. The
most important difference between North Korea and Iraq
is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq.
The country swims on a sea of oil." [...] 


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