Potential Introduction for essay

So I actually wrote this a while ago but never thought to put it on my blog

It was somewhere between September 2002 and February 2003, when it was obvious that the US was going to enter Iraq, that signs, bumper stickers, posters, sharpie graffiti, and other ways of conveying the statement “no blood for oil” began to show up. Now I was no supporter of the war, however I did not feel that the war was about oil or even money at all. Of course I knew that the president had massive ties to oil but I always thought the war was about something else. I thought the war was partly that of (revenge), that president Bush had always wanted to do what his father couldn’t; take out Saddam Hussein. Also I figured that the war was based off the administrations lack of knowledge on the Islamic world. While we were all being told that Iraq was supporting al-Qaeda, me with my small amount of knowledge on the Middle East that stems mostly from following Israel, knew this could not be true because Hussein and bin Laden ascribed to rivaling forms of Islam and would likely never have put their differences aside to attack America. I figured, yes oil may have played a small part in President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, but there was just something inside of me that knew the war was not about oil. However the further I researched the question “Why is America in Iraq” the more and more it became evident that oil was possibly the most significant reason America invaded Iraq. It looks as though my naïve assumptions from five to six years ago were (way?) wrong