Each bomb costs a million dollars, the rest of the armys mass murder supplies cost the same. So yeah thats,the purpose of war. War profiteers. Follow the money.

This guy is either incredibly naive, willfully ignorant, or intentionally obfuscating about the oil motivation. Sure, there was a long list of justifications, but they were just that -- justifications.

I'm sorry, but Daniel Yergin is whitewashing history. The US DID try to get a law favorable to Western oil cos passed - the Iraqi Hydrocarbons Law - as part of Iraq's new legislation, and only Iraqi resistance has kept this from happening - this resistance no doubt a contribution to the unrest and bloodshed that continues there to this day. And it was US mismanagement of 'reconstruction' that led to the current chaos and financial woes of the country.

the increase in oil output that the guest mentions, is mostly happening in northern Iraq, it's revenue are hardly realized in the Baghdad.

Why The War In Iraq Was Fought For Big Oil by Antonia Juhasz on CNN.com

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz/?hpt=hp_c1

I feel that there's no silver bullet, but I feel it was a way for companies such as Brown, Becktel, Halliburton to make millions in the reconstruction of Iraq. Many of the folks in the administration had ties to those companies...