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Originally posted by CET
We've had over a year to take the oil, yet we haven't.
Everyone believed Saddam had WMDs. See my post with the bulleted list.
If nothing else, we had a cease fire with Iraq, which Saddam was breaking on a nearly daily basis by shooting at us. How do I know this? I was there, twice. I don't like being shot at during a supposed cease fire.
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We haven't taken the oil yet because we have to build the infrastructure to do it, which isn't easy when the pipeline is continually bombed by 'insurgence'. These pipelines run for miles. The military has been unable to protect human lives (see beheading videos) working there, much less the pipelines. It will come to fruition sooner of later. I believe the US is in this for the long haul and will eventually control the places they want to control within Iraq.
If you didn't like being shot at why didn't the military leave HIS country? Let him do what he wishes. Yeah, he's ruthless...let his people decide to put a bullet in him. Why the focus on Iraq instead of the other regimes that are just as problematic (insert North Korea).