Reply #39: All this just to steal oil????

[JackNewtown]

The Saddam oil contracts the first viceroy of Iraq immediately canceled were estimated to be worth $1.1 trillion in 2001, based on the price of a barrel of oil being $25. So the current figure is well in excess of $3 trillion. Those contracts, which were held by Russian, Chinese, and French companies were given primarily to American oil companies, with the UK's BP and Shell get their cut as well for supporting the invasion, and a token amount went to the French state-owned oil company.

I posted a thread on oil and the war and did some googling and found this. This is very damning, but no mainstream major politician will dare to imply the war was about oil and other frankly imperial aims.