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*A report produced by a Pentagon task force "secretly established" Fall 2003 "as part of the planning for the war" to study Iraq's oil industry "described the Iraqi oil industry as so badly damaged by a decade of trade embargoes that its production capacity had fallen by more than 25 percent." Contrary to the task force's findings, deputy secretary of state Paul Wolfowitz "told Congress during the war that we are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.'" [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/international/middleeast/05OIL.html?th]
*The ''Balimore Baltimore Sun'' remarked April 6, 2004, that the "claim that Iraq might be able to double its oil production and pay for its own reconstruction once Saddam Hussein was removed from power seems surreal a year later." [http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=4012]
*A mere five months later, ''USA Today'' reported in October 2004 that the U.S.-led invasion had "resulted in the loss of an average of 2 million barrels a day of Iraqi oil from world markets."
