This fear which may be based on real data that a man like Cheney would be privy to, may well have made it vital that the U.S. not merely seize all available oil supplies in the Middle east and the Caspian basin, but deny it to any one who even tries to compete with us in securing supplies. Iraq was the first domino in that scenario.Iran is the other prize the administration is seeking.Countries like Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Angola and Nigeria are in their gunsights.
here is no other way to interpret their desperation to proceed to a war on any pretext except in this rationalization.Saddam was a dictator who was defanged and was in no position to offer any meaningful resistance.Yet, the need for simply seizing those oil assets in Iraq and strip that country of its vital resource became so overwhelming, the excuses had o be invented.And so a War was born.
