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To: SOROS who wrote (18740)	5/2/2003 7:25:08 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

SO IT WAS ABOUT OIL, AFTER ALL JAMES KIRKUP, BLOOMBERG NEWS - The U.S. and U.K. went to war against Iraq because of the Middle East country's oil reserves, an adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. Sir Jonathan Porritt, head of the Sustainable Development Commission, which advises Blair's government on ecological issues, said the prospect of winning access to Iraqi oil was "a very large factor" in the allies' decision to attack Iraq in March. "I don't think the war would have happened if Iraq didn't have the second-largest oil reserves in the world," Porritt said in a Sky News television interview. Opponents of the war, including some members of Blair's Labor Party, have said that the conflict was aimed at securing Iraqi reserves to benefit Western economies and oil companies. U.S. and U.K. leaders have repeatedly rejected that, saying the war began because Iraq held illegal weapons and threatened other countries. . . Porritt's commission was set up in 2000 to advise the U.K. government on making economic and business activity compatible with environmental-protection policies. The body reports directly to Blair.