01-15-2009, 09:46 PM
hotzester Wrote:I've never understood the "securing our oil interests" bit. War has historically been HORRIBLE for oil, and this one was no difference.
Oil is the life blood of modern life. without it nothing we have works or is manufactured. Obviously when this resource is threatened our way of life is threatened. Thus when the US secured oil producing Iraq, it helped to secure our modern way of life. Not that we can't get oil from other sources but you get my point. Since we were there to kill Saddam and stop the insurgence, securing oil resources was a natural secondary objective.
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