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I think that was THE objective. Oil plays a part, but I think we're beyond oil at this point. The oil will be used to keep the military as healthy as possible.

Iraq is in the middle of the Middle East. Syria directly west. Iran directly east. Saudi Arabia directly south. Central Asia basically to the north, and east somewhat(to paraphrase Rumsfeld). We're already in Afghanistan. We're in Uzbekistan. Pretty sure we're in Azerbaijan. We're in the Balkans. We've got our new friends in Pakistan(to a certain extent), until we say that they've developed WMD(and they actually have, and sold them around the world) and go to war with them in roughly 15 years from now.

It was never about Saddam.