[Peakoil] Iraq invasion was about oil

[Jenny Goldie]

Iraq invasion was about oil
Nafeez Ahmed, March 21,2014 The Guardian
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the 2003 Iraq War - yet to this day, few media reflections on the conflict accurately explore the extent to which opening up Persian Gulf energy resources to the world economy was a prime driver behind the Anglo-American invasion. 
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/20/iraq-war-oil-resources-energy-peak-scarcity-economy