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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

This war is about allowing the US to pillage the Iraq's 125 billion barrels of oil... Everything else is a PR screen. I thought this was common knowledge by now.

Still sticking to the 'blood for oil' argument, eh?

Tell me, why would the US have to 'invade' Iraq to secure their oil? Not only did it disrupt the flow, but it set Iraq back 5 years, and they're 'still' not back to their original barrels per day production.

Only lately have they been able to bump up production 200,000 barrels per month, IIRC in November and December of last year.

Hardly pillaging the 125 billion barrels of oil.

Plus, Iraq gets that money, not the US.

Sorry, but I fail to understand how it was in the US' best interest to raise the price of oil by invading Iraq in order to 'secure' their oilfields. As it has been shown in Saudi Arabia...the US is willing to let Islam extremism go untouched as long as the oil keeps flowing. So your 'conspiracy' of invading Iraq for the 'oil'....is ridiculous.

The US has massive reserves under their own control....they're just not tapping them. Not to mention that ever-expanding Alberta oil sands....perhaps a better idea, if the US was concerned about oil, would be to invest that trillion they spent in Iraq into the Alberta oil sands.

But hey, you can stick to your old and ridiculous argument all you want.

The US stands behind their 'spreading democracy' platform and uses it to justify the invasion. I'm sorry, but there's nothing that could be brought forward to nullify the massive coincidence that the US went into a country with the world's second largest oil reserves to 'spread democracy'.

That is your 'opinion.'

I'm hardly touching on the complexity of the situation, but it's important to understand America's intensions if you're going to argue a long term occupation in Iraq is the best plan for the Iraqi people.

I think increasing the production of oil, fixing the infrastructure and improving the quality of living is in the best interest of the Iraqi people. Sadly, your ridiculous plan of pulling out tomorrow would allow none of that to happen.

Its no secret that the US buys a lot of oil from Iraq, considering the #1 consumer in the world does use a lot of oil(hint, they buy lots from Canada too, I wonder what kind of interests they have vested in our oilfields...ready to invade to secure them perhaps?)....so yes, it WOULD be in the best interest of the United States to have Iraq pumping out a lot of oil.

Not only that, it would be in the best interest of the whole world. A stable Iraq, and a stable oil supply would lower the price. Plus, we won't see 3 dollar jumps just because Iran 'might' be building a nuclear bomb.