You didnt seem to need to quit your job and school to drop your two uninformed cents in here.

Its just common sense,when debating,to at least have the most up to date info if youre going to go thru the trouble of typing something in the first place.

BTW-the second article you googled was natural gas,not oil and Shell is Anglo-Dutch.

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So given the horrible job the administration did prosecuting the war, you expect them somehow to get this one part, the oil part, right?

I believe the war was about oil and the PNAC's ideas of US hegemony.

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"Conservatives" believe it is okay to kill innocent men, women and children, but not a zygote.

I believe (Meaning Opinion) That Bush and Co did believe he had WMDs. It was proven that Saddam was saying he did have wmds (I have provided links before). He was scared of Iran attacking him is the reason he was claiming to have them. Iran would do things to him that the USA wouldn’t even think about. The USA being hit with 9/11 and it was done by Middle East Terrorist. Put two and two together and said since Saddam is saying he has WMDs, we need to go in a kick his rear, before he gives one to who knows who.

I, Saryk wanted his head mounted in the White House way before 9/11. When he was shooting at our planes in the no fly sectors. And for seeing his butt on TV every night because he was sending the UN inspectors away, again. That was before Bushy.


My biggest complaint about Iraq, we should have won and left. And let the chips lay where they may.

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If it was that easy, everyone would do it.

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"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut

I think that after everything was said and done, after the war. People wanted to put their hands in the cookie jar. I do think that is possible. But when 9/11 happened, I don’t think that was on their minds. But I could be wrong and it wouldn’t be the first time.

I would really, really like to see 10-100 year of no war, energy crisis, or crime on TV.

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If it was that easy, everyone would do it.

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"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut

....has made the case brilliantly - namely that the invasion of Iraq was about oil. However, it would be a mistake to believe that the neocons are primarily motivated by oil. The Iraq war ought to be viewed more in terms.....

....of US geopolitical and imperial strategy in the context of a rapidly emerging superpower competitor in the form of China.

So whilst it is undoubtably true that Iraq is about the control of the middle east oil supply....

....the main reason for the invasion - of which oil is the very welcome by-product - is the overt expression of US strategic and military power in the face of a new potential rival in the form of China.

Partly, that and economic too. Look at the Haifa/Kirkuk pipeline and it's development. Saves shipping oil through the Strait of Hormuz passing Iran on it's way to markets in Europe. It's a much better route across the desert and replaces the former 8 inch pipeline that once was.

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"The only title superior to President of the United States of America is Citizen."

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?

Tresha quote:
I'm not sure why you are under the impression that because someone has mental health problems, they are incapable of intelligent and rational thought.