Terminus on Blood for Oil:
Blood for Oil. Ok, I’ve never been one of these “No Blood for Oil” types. I think that phrase oversimplifies the motives of the Bush Administration so far as to be unhelpful. I think that the oil motive is one component of a very complex set of motives. I think oil is a necessary, but not a sufficient reason, within the nebulous and by no means unified mind of the Bush Administration.
Unfortunately, the White House is making it damn hard to continue minimizing the importance of oil. When U.S. companies with strong political ties to this Administration (first and foremost, Halliburton) start picking up highly lucrative no-bid government contracts for Iraqi oil, it shakes your faith. In other words, this may not be an oil war, but the Bush Administration is bending over backwards to make it look like one.