David Kirsch

former Energy Analyst, US State Department

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Manager of Oil Intelligence for PFC Energy consultants in Washington, DC; former energy analyst with the US State Department (2003)

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Iraq has the fourth largest known oil reserves in the world.

Was the Iraq War about Oil after All?

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