A decade after most people in the country and the world figured out that Vice President Dick Cheney lied to the America people about Saddam Hussein's involvement in the 9/11 attacks and his weapons of mass destruction in order to obtain its oil, potinsnews.com reported on Monday that his "energy task force appeared to have some interest in early 2001 in Iraq's oil industry, including which foreign companies were pursuing business there, according to documents released Friday by a private watchdog group.
Tom Fitton, the President of Judicial Watch, the group responsible for obtaining the documents, thanks to a lawsuit by it and the Sierra Club to open to the public information used by the task force in developing President Bush's energy plan, said, according to potinsnews.com, "opponents of the war are going to point to the documents as evidence that oil was on the minds of the Bush (or, as some in the media considered it to be, President Cheney's) administration in the run-up to the war in Iraq."
Adding, "supporters will say they were only evaluating oil reserves in the Mideast, and the likelihood of future oil production."
Another new reflection of the issue comes from Bush's speechwriter David Frum in Newsweek.
"You might imagine that an administration preparing for a war of choice would be gripped by self-questioning and hot debate. There was certainly plenty to discuss: unlike the 1991 Gulf War, there was no immediate crisis demanding a rapid response; unlike Vietnam, the U.S. entered the war fully aware that it was commencing a major commitment."
However, Frum goes on to explain "that discussion never really happened. In fact, "Cheney spent long hours...contemplating the possibilities of a Western-oriented Iraq: an additional source of oil, an alternative to U.S. dependency on an unstable-looking Saudi Arabia," according to Newsweek.
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