Four years and three hundred billion dollars after President Bush launched “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” Iraq still faces physical and economic devastation. The health care system is in shambles, unemployment is estimated to be has high as 40 percent, and personal safety is an ever-present concern. Is this just the cost of war, or is it the product of mismanagement?

In the four-hour special Iraq: Four More Years?, Link TV takes a hard look at what’s gone wrong and who is accountable. Part 2 of the special features The Oil Factor, which questions the true motives behind the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This special will include interviews from Stanford professor and ethnic and civil war expert James Fearon, Ph.D, and investigative journalist Dahr Jamail.

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The Oil Factor
After assessing today's dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, The Oil Factor questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle East and Central Asia, where 75 percent of the world's oil and natural gas is located.

With exclusive footage shot on location in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the film documents the spiraling violence now engulfing both Iraq and Afghanistan, a country conspicuously absent from the commercial media's news segments.  

Interviews gathered throughout the Middle-East, Europe and the United States, including a Bechtel executive in Baghdad, also expose who is cashing in on the tens of billions of dollars requested from Congress by the current administration of George Bush.