This poll ran from October 22 to 28, 2007.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"The Iraq war is largely about oil." True 1386/56% False 1104/44%

Votes: 2490

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, from his new book "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World." The book was published on September 17, 2007.

"I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows," Greenspan, 81, writes in the book, arguing that the attention given by developed nations to the political situation in the Middle East is directly tied to oil security.

"Whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the world economy," he writes.

Greenspan clarified his remarks in an interview with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post in September 2007, telling the newspaper "I was not saying that that's the administration's motive. I'm just saying that if somebody asked me, 'Are we fortunate in taking out Saddam?,' I would say it was essential."

He said that in his discussions with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, "I have never heard them basically say, 'We've got to protect the oil supplies of the world,' but that would have been my motive."

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