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from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Well, maybe one day the fetish of all disaster movie directors will come true, and some will hit the Statue of Liberty. One day.
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Oh, I see you are still operating on the notion that the US is somehow trying to steal oil from the Middle East.
As for the thread topic: How about Operation Whack-a-Mosque?
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I was referring to US casualties in the wars, not actual terrorist attacks.
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Oh, I see you are still operating on the notion that the US is somehow trying to steal oil from the Middle East.
No the US went into Iraq for WMD and to payback all those Saudi terrorists and the Saudi leader of AlQqeda for 9/11.
Iam sure that Oil was the last thing on Republicans minds, in fact it never ever crossed their brains along with the need for a postwar plan.
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Operation Ballgame, because three strikes and you're out.
No the US went into Iraq for WMD and to payback all Saudi terrorists and the Saudi leader of AlQqeda for 9/11.
Iam sure that Oil was the last thing on Republicans minds, in fact it never ever crossed their brains along with the need for a postwar plan.
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Of course the official reasons for going there were complete BS, but so is the conspiracy theory tripe that we went there to steal all the oil. I have not seen a single shred of independently verified evidence that suggests some great oil stealing conspiracy took place in Iraq. So until that evidence turns up, I put the "oil conspiracy" theory in the same category as "Loose Change" and that lizardmen ruling the world crap.
If we apparently stole all the oil from Iraq, where is it? In fact the top 5 export destinations for Iraqi oil are India, China, South Korea, Italy, and Spain. Oh yeah, the US really stole all that oil, let me tell ya.
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Ah, the popular myth/logical fallacy that "Most of our oil doesn't come from Iraq, so the war had nothing to do with oil."
To say that "We went into Iraq to steal oil" is somewhat wrong but not misleading; on the other hand, brushing it off as a conspiracy theory is somewhat right but terribly misleading. The nature of a supply and demand market, especially one that is so sensitive to price shocks as oil, is that disruptions in the oil supply anywhere at all, whether of political, economic, or social cause, cause problems around the world. This is the nature of a global market. Did American troops literally siphon oil out of the ground and take it home by the barrel? No. Was the disruption of the oil markets a huge factor in the initiation of aggression? Most definitely.
To say that "We went into Iraq to steal oil" is somewhat wrong but not misleading; on the other hand, brushing it off as a conspiracy theory is somewhat right but terribly misleading. The nature of a supply and demand market, especially one that is so sensitive to price shocks as oil, is that disruptions in the oil supply anywhere at all, whether of political, economic, or social cause, cause problems around the world. This is the nature of a global market. Did American troops literally siphon oil out of the ground and take it home by the barrel? No. Was the disruption of the oil markets a huge factor in the initiation of aggression? Most definitely.
