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THE INVASION OF IRAQ Now, I know a fair number of you out there believe that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was all about oil. Specifically, it was all about making sure that exploration, production and development contracts would go to the likes of ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips label and BP (which is as much an American company now as it is label British, given it annexed what used to be Standard Oil of Ohio and Standard Oil of Indiana) as well as a handful of other "smaller" corporations (let's never forget that wherever label a taxpayer trough overflows, there's Halliburton ready to gorge itself). (It doesn't help to think of the supermajor oil firms as "American" companies. They are international oil firms with US addresses, and they specialize in selling crude and refined products to paying customers. Twenty years ago, even ten years ago, that was the same as selling to Americans.
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