Dick Cheney in The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore

On Energy & Oil: 2000: Energy Task Force studied Iraqi oilfield maps

There is now far more evidence than was available at the time of the invasion to suggest that Iraqi oil supplies may have played a much bigger role in the administration's overall decision than anyone realized. We now know, for example, from a document dated just two weeks after Bush's inauguration, that his National Security Council was ordered to meld its review of operational policy toward "rogue states" (including Iraq) with the secretive Cheney Energy Task Force's "actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields."

We know that one of the documents that was receiving scrutiny by the task force during that same time period was a highly detailed map of Iraq--showing none of the cities, none of the places where people lived, but showing in great detail the location of every single oil deposit known to exist in the country, with dotted lines demarcating blocks for promising exploration.

Source: The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore, p.117-118 Jul 1, 2008

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