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It [the Iraq war] was not for the sake of oil. [9]

— Christopher Hitchens

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  8. Here is the story, as far as I can trace it, of Chomsky's effort to 'minimize' or 'deny' the harvest of the Khmer Rouge. It will be seen th…

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  • foreign policy
  • iraq war
  • oil
  • motives

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