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    Default "BLOOD FOR OIL" remember that FAKE news story. I still ain't seen none of that oil



    For 6 years the leftwing State media told us that Bush invaded Iraq so he could steal all their oil. I'm still waiting.
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    It was a convenient meme..but I wouldn't be criticizing Dems when Bush became a POTUS of the neocons

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    A convenient meme? ... It was a fake news story for six years that asserted Bush was stealing all of Iraq's oil.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post


    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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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Bush invaded Iraq because he was a puppet of Wolfowitz, Cheney and Rumsfeld. An idiot. But he's a genius compared to Trump.
    Still waiting on all the oil I was promised.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Still waiting on all the oil I was promised.

    (tapping foot)
    Looks like Bush was too incompetent to even accomplish that.

    But you ain't seen nuthin' yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Looks like Bush was too incompetent to even accomplish that.

    But you ain't seen nuthin' yet.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    Bush has killed more Americans than Osama.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thing1 View Post
    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.
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post


    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."

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    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
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    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
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Still waiting on all the oil I was promised.

    (tapping foot)
    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

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