I didn't believe Gulf War

I didn’t believe Gulf War II was about oil. I thought it would be much cheaper to just buy it from Saddam rather than take over his country. Last week Paul Wolfowitz in a Vanity Fair interview suggested the WMD excuse was just a bureaucratic expediency and not the real reason. Then this week Paul Wolfowitz delivers a speech at an Asian Security Conference and says:

Look, the primarily difference – to put it a little too simply – between North Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil.

As I thought about it I began to wonder, so what if he admits it’s about oil. What is anyone going to do? Although apparently Mexico is worried they’re next. Listening: (none)