Arthur MacEwan examines whether the US war on Iraq was waged for oil. He concludes that "the economic story is never the whole story, and oil is never the whole economic story. In the ... application of U.S. power, numerous strategic and political considerations come into play. Yet, ...the U.S. government is concerned with domination and a major factor driving that goal of domination is economic. In the Middle East, Iraq and elsewhere, oil, ...looms large in the picture."