powell and now a professor of government public policy at the college of william and mary and also larry klayman attorney author former federal prosecutor in the reagan administration and founder of the organization's judicial watch and freedom watch dot org colonel wilkerson larry i figure i'll come to welcome to both of you colonel you're on the record as saying that you believe that the war in iraq was in part at least driven by a desire to get oil to change famously said ten percent of the world's oil reserves are there it's cheap oil back in two thousand and one. can you elaborate on that what causes you to believe you know i i'm not sure it was to get a well i'm not sure that's the way to put it i think it was to ensure that one of the greatest reserves of oil known reserves of oil in the world was well protected and i wouldn't say it was to get it into the hands. of chevron royal dutch shell exxon mobil another private companies because they're a lot harder to deal with the national companies like the mexican but as oil and saudi and so it was to stabilize one of the greatest resources in