It seems that it is generally accepted outside of the United States that the real reason for the war in Iraq had to do with oil, and nothing to do with the war on terror. If you did a poll here on dKos, I would expect that the majority of people would also feel this way. Just to amuse myself and everyone else, I added such a poll to this diary.
Up until now, I haven't seen much in the way of documentation on this subject however. There was a column in the Toronto Star over the weekend which is an excerpt from an upcoming book which explores all of these subjects in detail (thanks to another alert dKos reader for pointing out the article).
The title of the article is "Crude Dudes", by Linda McQuaig. The article can be found at www.thestar.com.
I haven't read the book yet - it isn't yet available. The book title is "It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil, and the Fight for the Planet", the publisher is Random House of Canada, and the publisher's website shows it here www.randomhouse.ca
I am not seeing the book on amazon.com yet, but on the Canadian Amazon I do see it listed: www.amazon.ca
Note that even if you are Canadian you cannot get the book yet - the official release date according to Amazon is September 28th (in about a week). I was able to log into amazon.ca and order the book just like it was amazon.com - higher shipping rates apply, of course). We will see whether the book actually arrives...
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