Reply #21: And there's the reason it would have been better to just leave Gaddafi to his own devices...

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...if it was "all about the oil".

He was just about to wipe out the pesky rebels and everything could have gone back to normal. In fact, to save time and money we'd have been better off vetoing the intervention.

But instead of taking that easy route, a massive political and economic gamble has been made.

If Gaddafi had been left to do what he was going to do there would have been no need to do anything, if that "IT'S ALL ABOUT THE OIL!" conspiracy theory was true. After all, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x696024">multiple transnational oil corporations had already set up shop there since at least 2004.