Basically I agree with what Alex says here; but I would like to add that like it or not OIL is important not only to our economic engine but to the worlds....an Iraq with a Sadaam Hussain thumbing his nose at the World community could not be allowed. He would have been(or was) capable of bullying his neighbors(weapons or not; just convinving other leaders he had them is enough to bully them) and as he aged there really was no telling what he would do((for gosh sakes he tried to kill Bush I---an act of war in itself---))
So if anyone wants to say it was about oil....I am not going to argue; so long as you leave the word
just out of the sentence
