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Originally Posted by SR-PT4

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.

1) Yes, and we aided him in his war with Iran.
2) Yes, and he was kicked out of Kuwait.
At the time of our invasion, Iraq was no longer an active threat - the Gulf war had consumed most of their tanks and planes.
We were sold a war based on lies - that's my point.
Democracy - bullcrap.
"mushroom cloud over an American City" - bullcrap.
we didn't even care that Saddam gassed the Kurds, because when he did it, there was hardly a peep from us.
So, if the entire free world depends on the flow of oil - which it does - why was only British Petroleum - I mean England - behind us going into Iraq? BEcause We want the control (and the profits) - we want to exclude China who is aggressively seeking oil.
The really, really sad part is that the war wouldn't be the mess it is if the Chicken Hawks would respect experience and not have backed Rumsfeld & Bremer. Their greed is exceeded only by their incompetence.