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To: Brumar89 who wrote (542177)	1/8/2010 4:42:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574876

If you believe it was about wanting oil and doing anything to get it, why didn't we steal Iraq's oil? Give me a break. They wouldn't outright steal it...not with the whole world watching. They move in their companies like HAL to take advantage of the situation...and they did. You do remember those no competitive bid contracts. What do you think they were about? With Bush, his whole life was one that revolved around oil money. That's right...it was oil money that made his life possible. His Dad made a small fortune in oil, but W made more by getting a piece of the Texas Rangers baseball team. Thats what established him financially and allowed him to run for governor, then President. Yup. He used his daddy's influence to get investors to buy the TX Rangers and he was part of the deal: angelfire.com This wasn't a guy who pulled himself up by his bootstraps. This was a guy who rode around in a golf cart looking for low hanging fruit to snag. When Bush looked at Iraq, I think he thought what if this guy really does get a nuke? Better take him out before that can happen. The fact Clinton administration people were telling him Iraq was a danger influenced him as well. Yes, with all the sanctions on Saddam, that was very unlikely. You don't think American intel knew that Saddam was spending his money on palatial estates, not nukes? Come on, Brumar....use your brain.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (542177)	1/8/2010 11:06:39 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574876

He didn't steal Iraq's oil, because the war to secure the peace was going so poorly they finally realized that if they stole the oil, they'd unite the whole Muslim world against us. There plan was flawed from day 1. If he was out to stop the proliferation of WMD, why not North Korea? Why not Iran? He went after Iraq, because it was the easiest of the bunch and because they had oil. We had Saddam pinned down in no fly zones. Saddam was powerless. There was only one reason to go in and that was oil. They sold us a bill of goods and they wasted $1 trillion of tax payer money. The only ones that made out like bandits were the US oil and military contractors.