SO WHAT IF IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE OIL?

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The 16th anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq is almost here, and every March I sit reminiscing about this time in 2003. My Army Reserve Civil Affairs battalion was mobilized the previous month. After 17 years in the National Guard-only being called up for disasters-I was heading into a combat zone.

Our government and that of the UK invaded Iraq because they believed that Saddam Hussein had supported al-Qaeda, and that he himself had developed weapons of mass destruction. In...