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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (109457)8/2/2003 1:29:52 PM
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<<Did it not make sense to overthrow Saddam and set the stage for Iraq to replace Saudi Arabia as the primary energy supplier to the west, thereby permitting the US to pressure the Saudis to crack down on the militant clerics...>> Oil was always center-stage in the invasion of Iraq, and partly for the reasons you suggest. The US never liked the vulnerability of relying on unstable oil suppliers for a strategic commodity. By the way, Japan's invasion of its resource-rich Asian neighbors in WW2 was entirely based on "self-defense", just like our invasion of Iraq was in "self-defense". To them it was self-defense because they needed the resources and wanted to control them directly. Others saw it as raw aggression -- just like many people see our invasion of Iraq as an aggression. The Emperor of Japan would smile to hear your explanation.
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