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This issue has been debated ad nauseum. IMO the Iraq war was about securing the supply of oil from perceived threat to its supply, that being an increasingly bellicose Saddam. In fact, our overarching foreign policy goal in our dealings with the Middle East is to make sure nothing threatens the supply of oilcoming from there to here. These dumbassed conspiracy theories that Dick Cheney had a bunch of his oil-company cronies in a basement war room at the white house plotting the invasion of Iraq over cigars and cognac, and then the Evil Uncle Dick Cheney duped his dumb rich-kid boss into doing just that, I don't buy it. It would make for a nifty movie, starring J.T. Walsh as the Evil Dick Cheney, and Judge Reinhold as the gullible, slow-witted Bush