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US soldiers standing guard at the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad, in April 2003
- a few days after oil once more began to flow from Iraq's southern oil fields
following the US-led invasion.
weapons. After the conflict, the UN had prohibited Iraq from develop-
ing any weapons of mass destruction and insisted on UN inspections to
prove compliance. Saddam Hussein persistently frustrated the inspectors
in their work, in what was an affront to the UN's authority. But this was
nothing new: such behaviour had been tolerated for years.
What suddenly made this intolerable in Spring 2003? There are many
plausible answers to this. Among them are President George W. Bush's
