- MSNBC: Saddam says real U.S. aim is to control oil
- China Struggles to Cut Reliance on Mideast Oil China gets three fifths of its oil from the mideast. If the US builds a client state in the new Iraq they will control the oil. It’s about the oil. That’s the real reason the Europeans and Russia oppose taking over Iraq. None of this has anything to do with weapons. The US has more ‘weapons of mass destruction’ than any other nation.