Jim Devine quotes Juan Cole:
It's also important for military purposes. The US military is especially oil-intensive.
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In March, plucked a number from a few years back out of Paul Robert's The End Of Oil. It was a HUGE chunk of Iraq's oil production. But you must realize that the "Green Zone" couldn't exist without air conditioning, so guzzle we must, in the best interest of Iraqi Democracy .
"As of 2003, the US war machine in Iraq was using 400,000 bbls a day of Iraqi Crude." (The End of Oil : On the Edge of a Perilous New World, Paul Roberts) http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0618562117/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-3903958-2128851#reader-link
