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Was oil a motivation for invading Iraq in 2003?
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Iraq
Energy
Oil
Middle East Politics
War
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The primary reasons the US Government gave for the Iraq War was to rid the country of Weapons of Mass Destruction and to free the Iraqi people. However, a common skeptical theory is that the US was significantly motivated by a need to secure a cheap supply of oil.
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Alan Greenspan
Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
17 Sep 2007
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John Howard
Former Australian Prime Minister
"We're not there because of oil, and we didn't go there because of oil, we don't remain there because of oil," Mr Howard told the Sydney commercial radio station 2GB. "A lot of oil comes from the Middle East, we all know that, but the reason we remain there is we want to give the people of Iraq a possibility of embracing democracy."
06 Jul 2007
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