the report which your link references provides nothing to suggest that
we should go to war with Iraq. Read it. It says nothing. Nothing.
(its circa 100 pages and bland in places but its a decent read for a rainy day).

It actually proposes removing the sanctions and replacing them with ones
which will work to control armaments and weapons.
It then suggests lifting any controls on investing in the Iraqi oil industry.
It talks about being careful not to do anything which piss off other oil
producers (such as invading).
That's in the limited places where Iraq is mentioned. The rest is a lucid examination of the energy problem and makes recommendations about what to
do about it.It actually makes a lot of sense.

Textbook for invasion INDEED!

Go ahead and read it.
OR......
You can just blindly take the word of people with a clear and demonstrable bias.

(Look that up too).

-Mike

The point is that what the report recommends has precious little in it
which would suggest that going to war with Iraq is a good idea.
And its sad that somebody can suggets that it might be
"the textbook in use on how to, in the interest of oil, invade Iraq and make it look like it's for the good of the Iraqi people and a campaign against weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein."

Its a shame that this stuff gets peddled around like it represents "gospel".
It is propoganda and the fact that there are some who will readily consume and accept it without challenge is as disturbing as any other propoganda.
One the water (or the truth) is poisoned...does it really matter what poisoned it?

Some believe that it is a complex problem space which plays host to the
motivations and conflicting agendas of many parties. To try to view it only
through the lens of the "oil issue" is too simplistic.

I'm also not sure why the administration has to have any ONE plan.
Is it not plausible (indeed likely) that they have multiple plans and contingencies in place?

Even if its along the lines of
a) Send in weapons inspectors

b) If inspections are thwarted threaten sanctions
c) If inspections are still thwarted....actually apply sanctions
d) If inspections are still thwarted.....threaten to invade
e) If inspections are still thwarted actually invade......remove
Saddam Hussein...... then take all of Iraq's oil for ourselves keeping
the Iraqi people in indentured servitude (Yugoslavia........? Sod that fellas!
This is different. These mother@#!$ers have OIL!)


...... or something like that.