IRAQI BLOGGER OMAR writes that it wasn’t about the oil. Nope, it wasn’t. (Best line: “Some Iraqis say that Iraq is a wealthy country and that America came here to steal our fortune, and I ask them what f***ing fortune?”) It suits some people to pretend otherwise, but that was always obvious. If it had been about the oil, we would have cut a deal with Saddam for, you know, oil, instead of making it harder for him to sell it.

Interestingly, for the French, it is about the oil — though even there that probably takes a backseat to power-politics and the joys of anti-Americanism.