I asked a repuke if he would finally admit the Iraq war was about OIL... [View All]

[liberal N proud]

Here is his response:

Oh sure, but not in the "make my friends at Halliburton rich" sense. Since most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Saudi's don't like us. Problem is, officially the Saudi government is our ally and we get our oil from them. All it would take is an assassin's bullet from an anti-American Saudi to overthrow their government and turn off the oil spigot to the U.S. overnight. If that were to happen, we aren't looking at $3 per gallon gasoline prices, we are looking at worldwide economic chaos which could lead to far worse than 9/11, including nuclear war in the mideast, if not worldwide. We couldn't take that chance. At the same time Bush could not publicly say that, since Saudi Arabia has not been overthrown and they (officially) are still an ally. But the overthrow of Iraq made good sense for the other reasons too - a despot in office who contributed to the instability of the mideast and who also labeled us the "Great Satan" and who disobeyed U.N. resolutions repeatedly; The WMD's were a strong likelihood but Sadaam had plenty of time to ship them off to Syria (or wherever) between the U.N. sanctions in October of 2002 and the start of the war in March of 2003 - that's almost 6 months to hide 'em or get rid of 'em, which is plenty of time. Iraq will eventually settle down as a free, democratic country and we will have our back up source of oil if Saudi Arabia falls. It also helped in the war on terror by disrupting the terrorists and serving notice to those nations (notice how Ghadafy changed his tune after Sadaam was captured) that harbor and aid terrorists that America will no longer appease their activity. You can point to Iraq and insurgents' attacks right now all you want, but the fact is, the new government is moving forward and despite all the insurgents efforts to disrupt the January elections, they happened anyway. And the ink stains on Iraqi's fingers prove that Bush was correct : Iraqis love their chance for freedom ! IF Saudi Arabia had fallen before we overthrew Sadaam, and the oil went dry, you know damn well that Americans could care less if Sadaam was a threat - all we'd care about is for Bush to get the oil from somewhere and restore the stability, no matter if Sadaam stood in our way or Tony Blair stood in our way !