Free Iraq or Free Iraq Oil?

[majorjohn]

A question which is based on a false fact:

If Iraq's oil was to dry up tomorrow, do you think Bush will still want to keep the troops there?

[imouttahere]

1. Yes, because it will probably never completely dry up, it will....

just be harder and harder and harder to extract and be more and more costly to refine. It's called peak oil. The end of cheap fossil fuel is coming soon.

[majorjohn]

2. Apart from reality

Assuming oil was to completely dry up, would Bush still want to be there?

[oblivious]

3. Not for one minute.

[Kelly Rupert]

4. Yes.

We're not getting any oil out of Iraq as it stands, and it seems unlikely we'll ever see any benefit from it. Bush wants to keep us in Iraq now because he can't admit he was wrong, not because of oil interests.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Free from US occupation and free oil for Iraqis. It's their oil, after all and they need

the revenue to rebuild their Country after we devastated it.

[Kelly Rupert]

6. That was the original plan.

As it turns out, in order to sell oil, you need to pump it and transport it, and it's rather hard to do either when the pipelines and wells are on fire.

[majorjohn]

7. Bush cites oil as reason to stay in Iraq

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