Was it for the oil after all?

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"... Let’s not be too simplistic. In a leader the Independent was careful to point out that these documents “do not prove that the British government’s invasion was primarily motivated by a commercial desire to profit from Iraq’s oil.” And it would be “too simplistic” to present any single factor as the motivation “for this calamitous misadventure.” The only thing these documents do make clear is that oil was something that ministers were thinking about in those months prior to the invasion, contrary to their pleas otherwise. Most importantly, the Indie added, is that these documents were not reviewed by the Chilcot inquiry, which has been tasked with investigating Britain’s involvement in the Iraq invasion. “That is manifestly unsatisfactory.”..."

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