| Bursche said:
What?! The ignorance in most of the posts in this thread is hilarious. The US did not go into Iraq for oil. That is the most illogical conspiracy theory ever created. Whether you believe in WMD's or not were there, we took out a dictator who was found guilty for war crimes against his own people, and his neighboring countries by the UN. You can make theories for WMD's, taking out Saddam, or even just trying to spread democracy or US influence, but if you really think the US went for oil, go look at gas prices. Iraq does not produce a whole lot of oil to warrant a war. If we were going to invade a country for oil, I would go for Venezuela. As for Iran, the UN or even NATO should intervene to at least check up on whether or not they are using it for energy, or weapons. Energy usage is fine, but they should not have nuclear weapons. They are the kind of country to not be afraid to nuke Israel off the face of the map. |
Saying everything happened because of oil is of course a gross oversimplification of a very complex process, but if you seriously think oil had nothing to do with it, go look at oil company profits. Heck, go look at the profits of any major companies that the top guys of the Bush administration own.
I don't feel like committing myself to a long and tiresome argument right now, but your last sentence is pretty disturbing. The people running Iran aren't stupid, and they realise that initiating a nuclear war will get themselves killed. They're also nowhere near as bloodthirsty as you seem to think. Iran has a notable Jewish minority that's doing just fine, and the whole "wiping Israel off the map" thing was a mistranslation on par with "we will bury you".
