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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
I don't buy it.
Anyone smart enought to pull off something like this is likely smart enought to realize the poential gains to be had by stabalizing these countries. America is a net importer of oil so high oil prices do not help them. A much more advantageous situation is for America to stabalize the region, opening opportunites for companies like Haliburton to operate throughout the middle east without having to pay truck drivers $200k a year, and secure a cheap supply of oil.
Wasn't that the original conspiracy theory? Go into Iraq under the guise of weapons of mass destruction, to secure cheap oil? But now it's become screw up Iraq, which destabalizes the supply of oil, and makes prices go through the roof?
This is a war that was designed to stabalize the area and is now at a stage where it cannot be described without using the word "cluster".
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I hear what you're saying... I agree, the 'going there for oil' theory seems difficult to accept given that they're not even pumping much out of the place right now (I believe). Though, some theorists might think that money was a factor, just not the oil money. The US has spent billions on this War and the main beneficiaries in many ways have been the companies contracting out their services to the US Government/Iraqi Government/US military. There's hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into private contractors hands... isn't that a good reason for some of those contractors wanting to push politically for a War like this? It doesn't help that leading members of the Administration have more or less direct ties to the largest of these companies (Cheney/Halliburton).