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Originally Posted by stevo
You people act like we're in iraq barreling up the oil and shipping it to the US for free. This oil argument is old and dead.
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I wouldn't catogorize the arguement as old and dead, but I'm certainly not saying that this is the only motivating factor for us being there. Given that Bush started planning the invasion as early as 12/01, I think that there is more to it than a simple grab for oil. There was certainly an "unfinished business" mentality in the White House from the early days of the administration. There were other pertantent reasons, but I have no intentions of discussing them in this thread.
Wars are rarely if ever a single issue action, and this one is no different. Certainly the Nazis invaded the USSR for reasons other than the Caucasian oil fields, and I doubt that you'll find a historian alive who would be willing to public state that was the sole reason.
If 19% is an insignificant amount, please send me 19% of every paycheck that you get, Stevo.
I promise to put it to good use. There's also the possibility that the intention to increase that percentage was circumvented by the unanticipated insurrection.