Correction: No he did not say that (was The truth leaks out)

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Corrections and clarifications

Thursday June 5, 2003

A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the
heading "Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil" misconstrued remarks
made by the US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making
it appear that he had said that oil was the main reason for going
to war in Iraq. He did not say that. He said, according to the
Department of Defence website, "The ... difference between North
Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options with
Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of
North Korea, the country is teetering on the edge of economic
collapse and that I believe is a major point of leverage whereas
the military picture with North Korea is very different from that
with Iraq." The sense was clearly that the US had no economic
options by means of which to achieve its objectives, not that the
economic value of the oil motivated the war. The report appeared
only on the website and has now been removed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/corrections/story/0,3604,971436,00.html