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Originally posted by abadfish
That is such BS... I don't agree with the war and thought it was about oil originally too... but Iraq really doesn't have all that much oil (compared to other countries) and it would be soooo much easier and cheaper to just buy the oil. Even if an American company came in there and started drilling the oil, how would the US get it? They would buy it...
I really think fear helped Bush get re-elected, that and I feel a lot of Americans just wanted to "spite" the rest of the world, and terrorists... Like, we know you don't like him, so we will vote for him. That may sound stupid but its how a lot of people are.
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Iraq has alot of it. And for US to buy, iraq would have to sell it. Look at the oilprices go up cause of the general instabillity in iraq (even though US is in overall controll of the oil). Now think what saddam could do to it if he deciced to keep every drop of iraqi oil of out US hands?
But it's ofcourse more to the war then just the oil. Some of them could be: Showing "strong leadership" after 9/11. Old personal grudge with saddam. Troops on the ground = controll. Scaretactics for iran and north korea. A general (christian?) view of the world in black and white. Saddam was "bad", therefore every means to remove him was ok, but jesus, if every big leader made everything that simple the world would be a total mess?
Voting someone into power to "spite" someone else sounds like a.. uh.. somewhat retarted reason?
Do the majority of the bushvoters even know what the (big parts of the) world thinks of bush? outfoxed presented some interesting statistics on how many foxviewers believed in what everyone else knows was lies by now (WMDs, al-quadi links etc). Maybe they think the world loves bush
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