Quote Originally Posted by yesdachi View Post
Not plenty enough or else public opinion and the vast majority of politicians would not have said go go go!

@ Boba - Oil is an underlying constant with anything to do with the Middle East. To say the war was about oil is as accurate as saying the earth is flat, from some perspectives it is but there are also a lot of other adjectives to describe the earth and the situation in Iraq. What I said is not a load of crap, what was happening there was a load of crap.

Saddam wasn’t a douche bag? Please.
What?
I'm not sure I understand, the earth is clearly round and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot and not worth listening to. Is that what you were saying?

You see, if you read those links I posted, it is very clear the war was about oil. If the war was about getting rid of Saddam, more time and money would have gone into the invasion. But the hawks saw a chance to get rich quick, or at least they thought they did.

Saddam was no where near as bad as the Saudis, If you wish to refute that I suggest you go and read up on their conquest and subjection of the Hijaz. Saddam was turned into the bad guy by the first Gulf War, when he was well within his rights to invade Kuwait for its blatant illegal drilling in contested Oil Fields and selling of oil well below the accepted OPEC price. Saddam was the only man that consistently tried to avert war, everyone else involved went looking for it.