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The war in Iraq is about oil? Really now, you don't say. Is anyone really all that shocked about this? Saddam has been after control of middle east oil for years and would do anything he could to gain that control, including the attempted take over of Iran and Kuwait. The entire free western world's collective economies depend on the flow of oil from the middle east, like it or not. Should we be seeking alternative sources of energy, or even alternative sources of oil? Hell yes we should, but either nobody is doing it or nobody is allowed to do it. We can't open up all sorts of domestic or near domestic oil fields because we'll kill a few animals, yet the Alaska pipeline has proven that wrong. Democrats and Republicans alike have killed all manner of alternatives in so many different ways for so many different reasons, and all either of them wants to do is blame the other.

You can call it a war for oil, but that does not take into account the big picture. Turn off the spigots, or slow the flow enough to bring gas prices to $6/gallon and what happens to the price of goods and services here and elsewhere? I wasn't around during the 1930's but I hear it wasn't a ton of fun.