Well, it turns out that the Second Gulf War was about oil after all and not about weapons of mass destruction or any of the other expediencies which the current regimementioned. Ipse dixit Wolfowitz.
Update: (Well, the link above is broken.) I, too, was fooled by reports in the press that quoted Wolfowitz as saying that Iraq was "swimming in oil." [via This Modern World] What Wolfowitz actually said:
Posted by jim at June 5, 2003 09:34 AMLook, the primarily difference -- to put it a little too simply -- between North Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of North Korea, the country is teetering on the edge of economic collapse and that I believe is a major point of leverage whereas the military picture with North Korea is very different from that with Iraq. The problems in both cases have some similarities but the solutions have got to be tailored to the circumstances which are very different.