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Reply to Hmmm This Seems to be a Poor Way to Steal Oil in Politics JoeUser Forums

I suppose the fact that any of us are bothering to rail over political arguments on an online game site is rather pathetic, and I suspect we're all wasting our keystrokes. Regardless, I'll continue to wallow with the rest of you... 1. Two unmarked twenty year old shells, that we sold to Saddam in the first place? Give me a break. 2. We told the world that this situation was so dire and unique that we were willing to overstep the fun

Reply to Hmmm This Seems to be a Poor Way to Steal Oil in Politics JoeUser Forums

Saiyan, Even the current administration could not get away with openly stealing oil. However, there is a belief among neo-conservative academics that entrenching us business interests into the gulf region oil industry is the next best thing. Pertaining to your alternate justifications: 1) There were no WMDs. The UN weapons inspectors seemed to know that, funny that the CIA couldn't figure it out. 2) How was Saddam a threat t

Reply to Hmmm This Seems to be a Poor Way to Steal Oil in Politics JoeUser Forums

Greywar, You are repeating yourself. Lifting the sanctions would not have convinced Saddam to allow US companies to make investments in Iraqi oil infrastructure, it simply would have accelerated the rate at which he was awarding those contracts to companies owned by other countries. The only way to allow our companies greater access to the oil sector in Iraq was to shake up the government. Additionally, you didn't answer the

Reply to Hmmm This Seems to be a Poor Way to Steal Oil in Politics JoeUser Forums

The other option was that our top minds really did believe the false intelligence that the Iranian secret police fed us through Ahmad Chalabi. That we really did think we were going to find huge stockpiles of illicit weapons and that the Iraqi people would greet us as liberators. Oops.

Reply to Hmmm This Seems to be a Poor Way to Steal Oil in Politics JoeUser Forums

Greywar, No, although the American consumer was buying oil from Iraq through the oil for food program (at an inflated price), American oil companies were completely shut out of the process. Look at who had the oil contracts and who supported or opposed the war: US - Oil companies were shut out by Saddam regime - Supported invasion Britain - Oil companies were shut out by Saddam regime - Supported invasion China - Compani

Reply to Hmmm This Seems to be a Poor Way to Steal Oil in Politics JoeUser Forums

Greywar, To say that we fought this war to "Steal Oil" is obviously a gross oversimplification, just as saying we did it to "protect america" is an overstatement. That does not mean that it had nothing to do with oil. All of our middle east foreign policies are at least partially designed to maintain our access to both the supply of oil and the equipment and services markets served by our oil com