I find it disheartening that you would begin your post with such a pithy attack. We're not all entirely stupid you know. . Your point would be better taken, imho, if you wouldn't verbally attack first. .

The Iraq war is not about either of these issues. We have to capability to eliminate oil dependency at any time. Iraq was content to be dictated, and did not ask for us to free it, if you think back you'll remember that the reason we went into Iraq was to find weapons of mass destruction and stop global terrorism. This war is about what nearly every war has been about for the length of recordable history, Money. The planned budget for the 2009 U.S. Military is $965 Billion Dollars, Most of which will go into the pockets of Bush supporting government contractors. Not to mention the sales of weapons by U.S. contractors to the countries that want to destroy us. At the root of every great conflict you will find a money issue, because money is power.