"BLOOD FOR OIL" remember that FAKE news story. I still ain't seen none of that oil
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For 6 years the leftwing State media told us that Bush invaded Iraq so he could steal all their oil. I'm still waiting.
Bush invaded Iraq because he was a puppet of Wolfowitz, Cheney and Rumsfeld. An idiot. But he's a genius compared to Trump.
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Looks like Bush was too incompetent to even accomplish that.
But you ain't seen nuthin' yet.
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And yet, he captured Saddam Hussein and brought him to justice ... which everyone thought was impossible.
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Bush has killed more Americans than Osama.
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Well of course, demoralizing our U.S. military soldiers is part of the leftwing playbook.
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You guys take it way too literally. It wasn't about "taking the oil." It was about controlling the oil-rich region - the reason for ALL of our actions in the Mideast for decades.
The war was definitely about oil, as Iraq 1 was.
The war was definitely about oil, as Iraq 1 was.
you are at least getting there..It was a strategic move ( utterly FUBAR -but in their minds) -much like we keep the Straits of Hormuz open.
The problem is that invading Iraq isn't even anywhere on the same scale as beating back Iranian patrol boats.
Oil is always part of the equation there, but the neocons were hellbent on regime change for many more reasons post 9-11
For 6 years the leftwing State media told us that Bush invaded Iraq so he could steal all their oil. I'm still waiting.
That it would pay for itself came from the Bush puppet masters, idiot.
"The projections: Ahead of and shortly after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a number of officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz suggested the war could be done on the cheap and that it would largely pay for itself. In October 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan reconstruction that "the $20 billion the president requested is not intended to cover all of Iraq's needs. The bulk of the funds for Iraq's reconstruction will come from Iraqis -- from oil revenues, recovered assets, international trade, direct foreign investment, as well as some contributions we've already received and hope to receive from the international community." In March 2003, Mr. Wolfowitz told Congress that "we're really dealing with a country that could finance its own reconstruction." In April 2003, the Pentagon said the war would cost about $2 billion a month, and in July of that year Rumsfeld increased that estimate to $4 billion."
https://www.google.com/amp/www.csmo...11/1222/Iraq-war-Predictions-made-and-results
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It was regime change in order introduce democracy and thereby reduce the threat of Islamic terrorism. Oil factored into it, but we wouldn't have invaded Iraq just for oil...that's left fringe stuff.
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You guys will never get it.
If there was no oil in the Mideast, it would be like Central Africa to the neocons. It would hardly be on their radar.
It's about oil.
You may see it yet. Your messiah says it's okay, to hell with legality.
"I’ve always said -- shouldn’t be there, but if we’re going to get out, take the oil," Trump told moderator Matt Lauer at NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum on Sept. 7, 2016. "If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and the wealth of that oil."
When Lauer pressed Trump on how he would have accomplished this, Trump said the United States would have to "leave a certain group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil. … You know, it used to be to the victor belong the spoils. Now, there was no victor there, believe me. There was no victor. But I always said: Take the oil."
Trump has publicly offered this idea numerous times. Here are just a few examples:
• "ISIS is taking over a lot of the oil and certain areas of Iraq. And I said you take away their wealth, that you go and knock the hell out of the oil, take back the oil. We take over the oil, which we should have done in the first place." Meet the Press, Aug. 16, 2015
• "I told you very early on, if we're going to leave, take the oil, because, right now, you know who has the oil." CNN’s State of the Union, Oct. 25, 2015
• "I have long said that we should have kept the oil in Iraq." Foreign policy speech in Youngstown, Ohio, Aug. 15, 2016
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/09/should-US-have-kept-Iraq-oil/
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"Those who claim that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 to get control of the country's giant oil reserves will be left scratching their heads by the results of last weekend's auction of Iraqi oil contracts: Not a single U.S. company secured a deal in the auction of contracts that will shape the Iraqi oil industry for the next couple of decades. Two of the most lucrative of the multi-billion-dollar oil contracts went to two countries which bitterly opposed the U.S. invasion — Russia and China ... "
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948787,00.html
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948787,00.html
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Again - it's about controlling the region, not the actual oil contracts.
I wish people understood this better.
He fucked up two wars simultaneously.
The Iraq War and capture of Saddam was the beginning of the power vacuum that got us where we are today.
much too simplistic..it's like telling me our only interests in the middle east is oil
yep..look at the timing- post 9-11. ( ironically Saddam -like Qadaffi was virulent anti-terrorism)..we screwed them both