Insofar as "no blood for oil," it is the stated goal of the Bush administration to allow Iraq to retain control of its oil deposits, without the US being involved. ... It should be noted as well that the US had the opportunity to claim Iraqi oil fields in 1991, and chose not to. ... Also, resultant of an effort to devestate America's economy, what is preventing Hussein from supplying terrorist organizations with chemical or biological weapons? ... In a famous example, UN inspectors were alerted in 1995 to extremely high quantities of previously unsuspected weapons programs being de...

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This war caused Iraq to start selling increasing quantities of oil to the United States, and at a discount. ... Stark, a navy frigate, was accidental and overlooked Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iranian troops and against Iraqi Kurds during the Anfal. 1990s In 1990, when Iraq invaded its tiny, oil-rich neighbor, Kuwait, U.S. and Iraq relations broke down. ... As Saddam survived several containment attempts, and as the containment regime-sanctions, weapons, inspections, and no-fly zones-stayed in place for far longer than expected, Iraq figured out how to get around the...

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Fifty-eight Iraqis were captured after the attacks and U.S. troops seized a considerable number of weapons from a minivan fleeing the area, the military said. ... There was an explosion and huge fire along a pipeline carrying crude oil from the oil fields near Kirkuk to Iraq's largest refinery at Beiji, the U.S. military said Thursday in Tikrit. ...

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