"As my "what would happen if Saddam auctioned off his oil fields tomorrow and just became another Middle Eastern despot like the rest of them" example demonstrates, we're not just going to war for oil; we're going to war for the "security" of profit.
While profit is a fine value for a corporation to hold, it's not the prime value of humans and it's definitely not one of the values that drive or preserve democracy. "
-- from the Dan Millman Newsletter November 2002