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Originally Posted by username
While I don't believe in the whole conspiracy part of this, there are a lot of strange coincidences that came out of this
1 - Americans became very scared of anyone with a middle Eastern background.
2 - The price of oil started to climb shortly after the 911/I.T. recession ended
3 – The US was in an energy crisis with the price of a gallon of gas reaching 3.50
4 – The fear generated from War on Terrorism was enough to convince Americans they needed to go to war against Iraq.
5 – The US takes control of Iraq and the first thing they do is secure the oil pipelines.
6 – A US friendly govt. takes over Iraq
7 – US oil companies are able to move into Iraq
8 – The United States secures possibly 3-4 millions barrels of conventional oil
Coincidence?
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I don't buy any of those as coincidences.
1 - Americans became very scared of anyone with a middle Eastern background.
Thats naturally going to happen when men who came from the middle east murder thousands of your citizens. Thats not a coincidence its a natural emotional reaction
2 - The price of oil started to climb shortly after the 911/I.T. recession ended
Sure, but wouldn't that be a logical consequence of an war against one of the major oil producing companies in that region. Wouldn't the speculation be that supply would be suspect.
Combine that with American demand going up as they had to support a massive army in the field.
3 – The US was in an energy crisis with the price of a gallon of gas reaching 3.50
See above
4 – The fear generated from War on Terrorism was enough to convince Americans they needed to go to war against Iraq.
Again see the emotional response, for the first time America had been victimized by a major attack on their soil since Pearl Harbour. Honestly the vast majority of American's wanted to lash out, Afghanistan and Iraq to them were logical.
5 – The US takes control of Iraq and the first thing they do is secure the oil pipelines.
Not a coinkydink to me, its a pretty logical invasion strategy. You seize resources, cities, and towns.
6 – A US friendly govt. takes over Iraq
did you expect the American's to install a hostile government.
7 – US oil companies are able to move into Iraq
Thats how any country works in an invasion, first you conquor them, then you exploit them.
8 – The United States secures possibly 3-4 millions barrels of conventional oil
Yeah, but as an added side effect, basically occupying two countries has encoured far more debt then those millions of barrells of oil could ever possibly pay for, both in terms of lives and for dollars.