Now it is Barack Obama's turn to tell us that the war in Iraq is over. First Bush from the aircraft carrier while dressed in a flight suit, and now Obama. We are now being told that by the end of the year all US combat troops will be "home for Christmas". NBC's Nightly News program tells us tonight that while the US Army will be out of Iraq, the US government will not. The new US embassy in Baghdad will be the biggest in the world and a new consulate building in Basra-near the oil fields-will also be a massive structure. There will remain in Iraq after the new year some 16,000 to 17,000 US government "employees", many of them CIA officers. Basra, as we know, is in the oil region of Iraq and it is also very close to Iran. A high ranking officer interviewed for the program-I did not note his name-said that if the need arises there are still divisions of US troops in "the region" if not in Iraq. With a major consulate building and scores of "diplomatic" types in the oil region, can you now still hold to the belief that it was not about the oil all along?
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