Iraq - It was about oil after all

In 2003 then PM, Tony Blair, went on Newsnight in the UK to say that the invasion of Iraq was not about oil and that thought was absurd.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html This tells all.

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