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Presses its case to the american people that iraq must be confronted before saddam hussein's true intentions are revealed in a nuclear mushroom cloud. >> the last thing we should want is a smoking gun. a gun doesn't smoke until it's been fired. >> privately, though, internal deliberations are also about exploiting iraq's oil. the pentagon is debating, "whether to use control of iraqi oil to advance important u.s. foreign policy objectives affected by energy issues." while the national debate is over aluminum tubes and mobile biological weapons labs, internal planning documents note that increa...

Take it over far more than anything else. >> in public, bush administration officials continue to maintain that oil is not a factor in their war deliberations. in this infinity cbs radio interview broadcast on c-span, defense secretary donald rumsfeld is pressed on that issue. >> mr. secretary, what do you say to people who think this is about oil? >> nonsense. it just isn't. there are certain things like that, myths that are floating around. i'm glad you asked. it has nothing to do with oil. literally nothing to do with oil. >> behind the scenes, though, planning for iraq's oil goes into over...