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1/18/07

USATODAY.com - Dollars, not just democracy, often drive U.S. foreign policy - by DeWayne Wickham


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Dollars, not just democracy, often drive U.S. foreign policy - by DeWayne Wickham

Is an ugly chapter in American history about to repeat itself?

Last week, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee grilled Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about a hydrocarbon law being considered by Iraq's parliament. The bill, the contents of which have not been published, is expected to prescribe how Iraq's oil revenue will be shared among the major factions in that country. The measure also is supposed to spell out the degree to which foreign companies could invest — and profit — from Iraq's oil industry.

Many foreign and domestic critics of the war have charged that getting control of Iraq's oil — not getting rid of weapons of mass destruction — was the real motivation behind President Bush's decision to topple Saddam Hussein. And while the evidence to support this theory appears to be based more on conjecture than fact, at least so far, history is not on the side of those who bristle at such a claim.

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