Nonsense. The first gulf war was "about oil" in the sense that a trading partner was invaded in an area that had suffered an upset in stability, but we didn't go in there and take any oil. We re-established regional stability and restored sovereignty to an allied trading partner, but we didn't establish any new supplies or procure special economic favors. The second gulf war showed what happens when you badly scare the US after it's suffered an attack on US soil. Trust me, being in the military I saw a whole lot of stuff that "proved" that Saddam was very close to being able to threaten not only the persian gulf region, but the entire world with chem/bio/nuke weapons. I guess he was too damn good at bluffing because he scared a lot of people very badly, so badly that we called his bluff. But did we get anything out of it? I would argue that we got NOTHING out of it except the incentive to transform our military away from a cold-war footing that just isn't fully appropriate anymore. But the cost has been enormous and we haven't gotten anything out of it. It wasn't about oil, it was about frightening the civilian and military leaders of a nation that was under attack.But thank you for commenting... Your snippy remark is typical of people who are completely blinded by partisan political bickering and posturing, so much so that they refuse to examine and think about the real facts. You attributed some pretty simplistic motivations (oil greed) to what was a hell of a complex situation when our nation had been attacked and we were faced with threats and posturing by opponents of all types and sizes. Only one nation scared us enough to get pounded, and that was Iraq. But it's just dumb to claim it was about the oil. If it was, we'd have let Baghdad go to hell, brought in Exxon to set up oil fields, and secured a 1 mile wide strip of land for a pipeline while we filled up tankers. Nobody could have stopped us.
Oh the irony.
Well how nice of you to tell me, but I know you are wrong. So forgive me if I differ from your american perspective.I will not argue over this, like I said it will lead us nowhere.
Well let's just say that it goes way beyond just oil, but oil is part of it."In GOD we trust"GoldOilDrugsThey who control the money, control the world. Very simple yet people fail to understand what it really means.
You impress with your intelligent remarks. I stand in awe of your conversational abilities.Seriously, there is no doubt that whoever disrupt the supply of oil, or even threaten to, is in a world of hurt.
Why?No resources,surviving only on USA payments in exchange for military bases on their territory.Its your burden now.
"Saddam wanted to control a large chunk of the world's oil supply" Did I ever question that?
I did not say HAD weapons, but they all have programs in R and D.
