If you feel better because the Attack on Iraq was "just for oil",

[Angela Shelley]

If you feel better because the Attack on Iraq was "for oil", then think further.

There are about 7 billion people on this planet, 300 million live in the USA.

Why is a country with only 5% of the world´s population attacking another country "just for oil"?

Why is it that so many Americans are RELIEVED to think that this is "just for oil"?

As if killing innocent people "for oil" is better than "killing them to set them free?"

[babylonsister]

1. Who, pray tell, is relieved that this illegal occupation and the resulting

deaths, civil war, etc., is 'just for oil'? I'm not.

[madokie]

2. to the contrary I feel bad that we invaded for any reason

there's no better in there, its all bad

splchk

[acmavm]

3. Where did you get that crazy idea?

[htuttle]

4. Um...'relieved'?

:wtf:

[alarimer]

5. Regardless of the reason, we had no right to do it.

We are illegal occupiers, no better than the Germans in WWII. We invaded for lies, mostly, but if Iraq had no oil, we surely would not have done it.

[ladjf]

6. I don't get the feeling that large numbers of people are relieved

that the Iraq invasion was to steal the oil, although most know that it was probably either the 1st or 2nd main reason.

[okasha]

7. Who are these people who "feel better"

because the invasion was "just for oil?" :shrug:

Everyone I know who realizes that the invasion was a grab for Iraq's resources is outraged.

[gratuitous]

8. Actually, I was in a demonstration that called it before the invasion was launched

Several folks had signs that read "No Blood for Oil," and for our trouble, we were labeled as "naive" by our local newspaper, which went to the great time and expense of aerial photography to dispute the numbers of people marching in the streets against this little exercise in imperialism. So if someone in an indisputable position of authority has finally fessed up that we've wasted hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars just for oil, I can't really say that I feel better or that I'm relieved.

No, I believe that would spin me off into a whole new dimension of pissed off, particularly if the media chuckleheads who called so many of us naive are now professing themselves to be relieved.

[Richard Steele]

9. Where in the HELL do you keep getting these loony ideas about what I think? nm

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. Link? Relevance? Point?

Hit and run?

[IDemo]

12. I think that was more like a wild miss n' run

[IDemo]

11. With only 5% of global population, we use a quarter of its oil

Bush and Cheney, former oil men, are both well aware that Saudi Arabia and other countries will not be able to sustain their present output, much less increase it as demand from India and China grow. This hasn't been a sudden revelation here for anyone that I'm aware of. To suggest that anyone here is "relieved" either to just have discovered that oil was the major reason for invasion, or to have known it all along, is flatly ridiculous.

Invasion of a sovereign nation which does not directly threaten us, for any reason, is a war crime.

Mar. 1994
Paul Wolfowitz
“The United States and the entire industrialized world have an enormous stake in the security of the Persian Gulf, not primarily in order to save a few dollars per gallon of gasoline but rather because a hostile regime in control of those resources could wreak untold damage on the world's economy, and could apply that wealth to purposes that would endanger peace globally.” Wolfowitz concludes, “Given this permanent stake in the security of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf War provided an opportunity to base security on a foundation of credible commitment by the United States and its coalition partners.” (more)

For the next few decades, Iraq is our oil station in the Middle East.
Feb. 2004
U.S. General Jay Garner
"Look back on the Philippines around the turn of the 20th century: they were a coaling station for the navy, and that allowed us to keep a great presence in the Pacific. That's what Iraq is for the next few decades: our coaling station that gives us great presence in the Middle East"

04, 2006
four-star General Barry McCaffrey
Still, McCaffrey says the nation must persevere, because the battle is dead in the middle of the national energy supplies for the U.S., the Europeans, the Japanese and others. If the U.S. does not prevail, the nation will be in hot water in that region of the world for 15 years. He says there are no other options.

Chalabi on U.S Oil Companies in Post-Conflict Iraq
May 2, 2003
Ahmad Chalabi, formerly of the Iraqi National Congress
"American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil."

Dick Cheney to Senate Armed Services Committe, 1990:
"We obviously also have a significant interest because of the energy that is at stake in the gulf. ... Once acquired Kuwait and deployed an army ... that gave him a stranglehold on our economy and on that of most of the other nations of the world."