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Crude Vision

How oil interests obscured US Government focus on chemical weapons use by Saddam Hussein.
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This report uncovers newly released documents revealing the history of oil interests and chemical weaponds deals made by U.S. Government officials with Iraq dating back several decades, and refutes the claims made by Bush Administration that the Iraq war was largely in order to eliminate chemical weapons possessed by Saddam Hussein.

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