This reader makes a good point:
Perhaps I missed the subtleties, but I always thought the “It’s all
about Oil” argument was just an adoption of the war protestors’ “No
Blood for Oil” mantra. And as I understood that “argument,” it wasn’t a
nuanced claim that Bush was invading Iraq so that he could get
more/cheaper oil from Saudi Arabia — it was that he planned to co-opt
(or outright steal) oil from Iraq. So, as far as I can see, Woodward’s
claim — whether right or wrong — does not validate the anti-war
“Oil” argument.