Well, if its really about oil then why are gas prices so high?
Again - why would an American adventure to advance the concerns of Big Oil result in cheaper prices at the pump?
Moore and Churchill most certainly speak about the Bush Administrations "insatiable lust for oil."
Sure, I'm totally certain that it's just a coincidence that a former oil company owner and the former CEO of oil-exploration company Halliburton Energy Services decided, contrary to treaty obligations and international law, to invade the country on top of the second-largest oilfield in the entire world. LOL!
The point is - the price at the pump has nothing to do with that. Why would it? Why would oil companies lower prices at the pump just because American foreign policy put them in an advantageous position to drill Iraqi oil?
Price gouging is criminal conduct as far as I'm concerned. Believe me, my wife and I have boycotted OPEC for a long time now.
What makes you think OPEC has anything to do with what's going on at the gasoline pump? Sure, they set the price of crude coming out of the Middle East, but that's only a small portion of our oil supply. And the price they set only represents the
floor of gas prices at the pump. What do you think OPEC possibly has to do with the ceiling?
I'm simply saying that people who honestly believe that the war was about oil are very misinformed.
Misinformed in what way? I mean they're certainly not saying that the Bush Administration
openly embarked on a war to secure the second-largest oilfield in the world. Obviously the American people would find such a war ridiculous, as you clearly do.
What exactly do you think they're misinformed about?
The sole reason is removing threats posed by against the interests of national security.
That doesn't seem consistent with the facts. We know that the persons involved in the greatest single act of terrorism on American soil were predominantly citizens of
one country; that country was Saudi Arabia, the country in which Islamic terrorism originates. And we know that, in Asia Minor, there's largely
one country who has shown the capability and willingness to supply nuclear secrets and technologies to Islamic terror groups; that country is Pakistan.
But Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are our
allies, instead of our targets. Surely, if national security was the goal, we would have deposed the leaders of those countries and secured those populations? Rather than attacking a country which proved to have no ties but the most tenuous to Islamic terror networks?
I'm simply arguing that the Iraq war was not about oil.
LOL! I'm sure it's just coincidence, then, that Iraq is on top of the world's second-largest oilfield, and that securing those fields were the military's immediate top priority - over the securing of weapons depots and ammunition dumps.
Remember what Saddam had done the first time? Like a child with a temper tantrum, he set them on fire and it took coordinated efforts to stop those fires. It took us over a year to get those fires out.
So? Do you think that those fires destroyed even one-hundredth of one percent of the oil in that field? The oil wasn't going to go anywhere. It wasn't like Islamic terrorists were going to drive up in trucks and load up 350 tons of
crude oil - you know, like they did with the high explosives locked under IAEA seal at al Qaaqaa.
Crash, he did it because he moved them and he knew he had nothing to fear.
There's no evidence that he moved anything, or had anything to move. Certainly that was the conclusion of the weapons inspectors. But I guess you know better sitting there in Oregon than the guys that were right there in Iraq?
Bush gave him 48 hours to leave Baghdad. By staying and not ordering his troops to stand down, it was his big F.U. posture to us. If wanted to avert the invasion he could have done it by complying.
By complying with the invasion? How does that make any sense?
You think Hilary, Bill, Kerry, Kennedy, Berger, etc were just idiots?
I don't know what they were, but I notice that none of those figures invaded Iraq. So clearly they knew something Bush didn't know, or were motivated by other concerns. For instance, national security.