The sole reason for this opinion piece has been refuted, as Mr Greenspan has already said that it was he who was concerned about oil and most emphatically not President Bush or Vice President Cheney. The author includes the lame former Treasury Secertary O'Neill complaint about cabinet meetings, which literally are the worst place to make policy, since two-thirds of the persons present have minimal knowledge about any issue that comes up, since it is beyond their area of expertise. The author apparently does not realize that the it is not the U.S. that depends on oil from Iraq (barely 2%) or the Middle East in general, but Europe and China. Very poorly sourced opinion piece.