MSD

I'll admit it, I was one of the people who thought that the main motivations for the Iraq war were oil and revenge. We got there, a poster in another thread accused us of "stealing Iraq's natural oil reserves." The WMD issue is a moot point, and in the past 23 weeks, gas prices hit 7 record highs in 8 days (source: CNN)

So, it seems that we're either dealing with a non oil-related situation, or the coalition governments and oil companies are conspiring to hold oil prices high. Is it more logical to assume that they're trying to make money, or could the war have really been an honest (but misguided?) attempt at bringing Democracy to a dictatorship?

I have done my best to make this a discussable question because in the original wording it seemed more like a troll, but it's really an honest question based on the quote from another thread that I didn't want to threajack. I won't hesitate to lock it at the first sign of idiotic bickering, and my fellow moderators will do the same; the only warning or notice you'll see in this thread will be to guide it back on track if it deviates too far from the intended course of discussion. If it ceases to be civil, it will be locked, and anyone engaged in the idiotic bickering that has infected the politics board will recieve official warnings.