Iraq: A War for Oil #2: Iraq's New Deals Make Case for Invasion

Mar 23, 2018 | Inam Ahmed and Shakhawat Liton, Daily Star
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Planning for the Iraq invasion started much before the real attack, as soon as Iraq signed oil contracts with Russia, China and France. The US leaders and US oil companies started feeding false information to media about Saddam Hussain's WMD. Even how to share the spoils of the war in post-Saddam Iraq was elaborately discussed.