Herseth: Iraq war was about the oil

A Sibby Online reader provided me with this link to a Huron Plainsman report on a Stephanie Herseth Q&A at the Elks Lodge in Huron. Here is the excerpt the reader objected to:

Cleo Johnston of Huron asked if the Iraq involvement was related to oil production.
"I think it was a factor," she said, "but not the primary rationale in going after Saddam Hussein."

There is no evidence whatsoever that oil production was any kind of a factor for the US going into Iraq. Based on the UN oil-for-food scandal, I would argue that oil production was a factor for those who did not want us to go into Iraq.