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Well, maybe it was about oil …

The Heritage Foundation is hosting a meeting about “Revitalizing the Iraqi Oil Industry: Implications for the World Oil Market.”

(Go visit the animals at the zoo. They have a small exhibit dedicated to Republicanus Moderatus, an endangered species these days. The paleontology section also has an especially comprehensive collection of Cold War Fossils).

Anyway, the meeting will address a number of questions, including: “How rapidly can Iraqi oil production be expanded? What are the implications for world oil prices and international energy security”

Not that the war was about oil or anything.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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