The oil will be placed into a trust controlled by the UN. Tony Blair was just talking about that yesterday. Did you know England EXPORTS oil? They don't need Iraqi oil. Iraq accounts for less than 2% of the worlds oil so it's pretty useless to us too. Claiming that the conflict is over oil is absurd.
To be perfectly honest, I hope there IS a war. Saddam will not willingly go into exile. If he disarms, he gets to keep his country and will be able to continue committing human rights violations in grand scale. The only way to take care of this is to arrest or kill him and remove his regime from power.
He was an immediate threat at the time we began sending troops over there. He's less of a threat now since he is surrounded by over 300K troops but as soon as the troops leave he'll be playing games again. It's time to act, even a 6 year old can see that.
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