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How else do you expect them to get the oil that will provide the life's blood of Iraqi economy out of the region and to a reliable port? You can't go into Iran with it, you can't and especially right now wouldn't want to go into Syria, Turkey is not likely to be a stable place to build it and Saudi Arabia definitely won't be interested in helping what's potentially their biggest competitor in the region either. Jordan and Israel are among our best allies in the region, as well as the only "friendly" road from Iraq to a major sea port.

And I don't trust one portion of that article, where a "senior CIA official" confirmed that people in the administration had been dreaming about a pipeline shut down in 1948. Who is this senior official and what reason might he have to speak to a UK web based news service instead of many other larger and more trustworthy news organizations?


And of course this war is about oil. Without it, Iraq never could have built a large enough war machine to invade Iran and Kuwait, or to build weapons of mass destruction.