Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil
George Wright, The Guardian, June 4, 2003

Editor's note: The Guardian has now retracted this article and issued the following statement:

A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the heading "Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil" misconstrued remarks made by the US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making it appear that he had said that oil was the main reason for going to war in Iraq. He did not say that. He said, "The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil." The sense was that the US had no economic options by means of which to achieve its objectives, not that the economic value of the oil motivated the war. The report appeared only on the website and has now been removed.

The substance of the original article can still be read
here.

- posted by ARYABHATT @ 7:53 pm