He WAS heavily invested in oil and the invasions did drive prices up, standing to make him a pretty penny, and most of the oil prices being driven up was based on speculation of conflict and not actual demand. One would be remisce(sp.) if they didn't atleast consider the possibility that the intention of going in was to drive up oil prices or to consider the possibility that it was atleast a secondary benefit to GWB and the other oil conglomerates. I personally don't think that this is the case, but I can't say for sure because hindsight looks to be pretty damagin in this regard, but I am a little bit in the know about the idea of the geo political idea about invading iraq, because I created briefings and did intelligence analysis on the idea and it is a sound one. If we could create a stable democratic like government and start to show the benefits of a market economy in the middle east, the younger generation will see the benefits and make decisions that are based on that and hopefully spread into the rest of the middle east. It is basically an attempt to secularize the middle east, which if you know anything about radical Islam, we will need if we are to avoid an outright Islamic war.
