On Wed, 12 May 2004 16:54:10 +0000, NOYB wrote:


No, I pointed out that oil is one of the major reasons we went into Iraq
before Syria or Iran. But it's not *the* reason.

"American intelligence and State Department officials have told me that by
early 2002 Syria had emerged as one of the C.I.A.'s most effective
intelligence allies in the fight against Al Qaeda, providing an outpouring
of information that came to an end only with the invasion of Iraq."

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030728fa_fact