CNN | Oil, Iraq, and Stability

Rick Barton appeared on CNN yesterday to discuss Iraqi oil contracts going to Western companies:

TODD: Are these agreements, no-bid contracts, according to "The New York Times," tantamount to the spoils of war? RICK BARTON, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTL. STUDIES: It's really hard to get away from the feeling that our interest in oil was clearly one of our core strategic reasons for being in Iraq. And this doesn't help with diminishing that argument.