To: TimF who wrote (340255 ) 6/13/2007 2:34:13 PM From: Alighieri Read Replies (1) | Respond to Where the oil we buy comes from isn't really all that important. Any disruption of any of the world's supply of oil effects the price we pay. A severe enough disruption would be quire harmful. In any case "about oil" doesn't really mean "about Iraqi oil". Iraq doesn't just have a lot of oil, its near other large producers, and it was potentially a threat to that production. That's too strong of statement. There is some evidence of some presence. You might say something like "where there is no evidence that the government was allied with Al Qaeda", and than I'd probably agree. But there where WMD programs....Mostly suspended, but ready to be fully resumed when the international inspection and sanctions regime broke down. The concern here was not about imminent threats but possible future threats.
