“The George W. Bush administration trotted out all manner of excuses for its invasion of Iraq, but it was clearly mindful of the fact that Saddam Hussein’s decision in 2000 to denominate the country’s oil sales in euros rather than dollars could hardly set a good precedent. Finding a way to forcibly get rid of Saddam was topic A at the Bush administration’s very first National Security Council meeting, a mere ten days after Bush’s inauguration.”
Mike Lofgren, Deep State
