"The fact that Cheney is focused on both invading Iraq and, at the same time, energy policy, is certainly suggestive of a possible connection between the invasion and a desire for Iraq’s oil — the very thing that is always vehemently denied."
Any potential oil dollars to come out of Iraq won't go to the US Treasury unless they are taken as taxes from the Big Oil conglomerates that have drawn the new borderlines on the maps that the writer talks about.
Even if dollars come in, was the loss of life worth it?