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Leaflets Dropped on Iraq

Check out these images of the leaflets the U.S. is dropping on Iraq right now. They are on a .mil site, so I believe they are authentic.

The ones that catch my eye are the numerous ones urging Iraqis not to blow up oil wells. Generally, I've been skeptical of the argument that this is a war solely about oil. So much attention has been paid to this aspect of the situtation that if GW tried to commandeer Iraqi oil for his own purposes there would be a gigantic stink. (At least I'd hope so, but who knows, nobody seems to care when he wants to drill in national parks and people keep on driving their SUVs, so what do I know?) But, now that I look at these leaflets, it becomes a little harder to say. If all GW cares about is making sure Saddam doesn't provide WMD to terrorists, then there's no reason to care whether he blows up the oil wells or not. If you care that much about the preservation of the oil wells, then your motivations for going in there are more complicated than is being let on.