Was the Iraq War about oil after all? [audio 50min]

Saddam Hussein kicked the big western oil companies out of Iraq in 1972. Now they're back, with no-bid service contracts that will put them inside Iraq's redeveloping industry. Will increased Iraqi production help postpone an energy crisis? Will US troops remain for security? Is that what the war in Iraq is really about? Host Warren Olney's guests are David Kirsch, former Energy Analyst for the US State Department; Naomi Klein, activist and author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism; Fadhil Chalabi, former Iraqi Under Secretary of Oil; and Kevin Phillips, former Republican strategist and author of American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century and Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.

Also, Kelly Evans of the Wall Street Journal discusses another bad round of news on the economy, and two scientists think they've discovered a historical date for one of the crucial moments in Homer's Odyssey, as Thomas Maugh has explained in the Los Angeles Times.