Why we are in Iraq

There are many different angles to the story of why we are in Iraq. Naomi Klein has a brilliant article in the September issue of Harpers (since they have a lousy webpage it is only available through our electronic journals from the library homepage). She exposes how the neocon dream on a free market Iraq led to the pillaging of the country's resources and the insertion of laws promoting mulitnational capitalists at the expense of local business. As with so much of the Iraq War story (e.g. Halliburton), this is not just a question of morality or ethics, but of competence and legitimacy.