Is there any evidence for the Iraq War being about oil?

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Rath said:

sad.man.loves.vgc said:

mrstickball said:

 

Are you talking about those hundreds of thousands dying under Saddam's regime, or the US?

what's the point of the question? the people died by the us become less important or what exactly?

I actually can't believe there are some people who still defend the war, a shame really.

There are several points on which the war is defendable. Certainly minorities such as the Kurds are better off now than they were under Saddam and the country is now stabilising.

As it happens I disagree with the war and especially the way in which it was started, but I can see how people can think the war was good for Iraq - especially in the long term.

Heck, it's more then just the Kurds.  

The war was pointless, dumb.  Was always against it.

Still.... Iraq will be better off in the long term.  That much seems obvious.

The US won't though... making the whole thing pointless from a US point of view.

We'll have created a brand new democracy full of people with more freedoms... who have stronger ties to other nations.   I mean there is a reason Saddam Hussein was in power in the first place and why he used to be friends with the US.

Unlike Afghanistan they had a good base there... polticians already established, well respected.