[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by TexaninVA

When you say “greed” for their oil … I have a question for you and then a comment.

Given that oil fuels our modern economy and, without oil, we would all be much worse off … poverty, no jobs, limited electricity, no A/C, no golf carts etc, … do you really think wanting to obtain oil is somehow bad or immoral?

The irony is, if we really went to war for “their oil” we are without a doubt the most inept imperial power ever. Most of the contracts and benefits went to the Chinese and other countries, who were no doubt laughing at us thinking “how can the Americans always be so dumb?”. One can argue that, given $2 Trillion and many thousands of combat deaths / casualties to liberate the Iraqis, the US should have demanded some form of oil or other payment from Iraq. In addition, we should have kept some level of forces there instead of bailing out … that would have prevented the medieval nightmare of ISIS that is now emerging. You are spot on about these guys being “crazies” by the way … they have a blood lust for violence that is off the charts.

Add to that the fact that we only get about 13% of our oil from the Persian Gulf and nearly 3/4 of that from Saudi Arabia and the argument that we are involved because of oil quickly goes down the drain.

We went into Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein. How did that help us in terms of oil?