If Iran becomes a nuclear power?

[Bursche]

NJ5 said:
@Bursche:

I still think you were heavily downplaying the oil issue. You talked about improving business... Oil itself the single most important business in the world, and the only important one USA has an interest in the Middle East.

 

 Honestly, I didnt know that Iraq had that much in reserves. All I knew was how much they produce each year, which is miniscal compared to the price of a war. But the fact of maybe having Iraq in the US's pocket for the next few decades, and potentially helping our oil dependency for that long is probably a good motive, but that was not the major or a large point of the war.