Umm, just out of curiousity, if all the US wanted from Iraq was oil, answer a few questions:

1) Why didn't we simply finish the job in 1991? As a side note, people said the Iraq=oil thing in 1991 too and the US didn't abuse its position back then.
2) Why did the coalition return sovereignty to Iraq?
3) Why, for that matter, did the US form any coalition if we wanted the oil for ourselves? A coalition would only complicate things.
4) Why are we paying such high oil prices instead of simply pumping oil out of Iraq as quickly as possible?
5) Why wouldn't we protect the Iraqi oil pipelines and production facilities better if all we wanted was the oil?

I don't think you can reasonably make the statement that the US is in Iraq strictly for Oil, because our actions haven't shown that to be the case.

-- Jeff

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