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Originally Posted by ratbastid
My question is, why Iraq? There are dozens of dictatorships around the world that were as bad or worse than Saddam's regime. There are easier ways to free up oil reserves. Is it just because the job didn't get finished under Bush Pere's administration?
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It was the oil. It is what it is always about in the middle east.
If the middle east didn't have oil, it would just be another africa, barely on the US radar. Nearly all the extremists that have any power in the middle east have that power because of the west's desire for oil and the popping up of regimes like the Shah in Iran and the Sauds in Saudia Arabia...
Iraq is just another link in a chain.