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Kasz216 said:

First off, I agree that the USA is a bigger risk to any country then they are to the USA.  The US is a sueprpower That doesn't mean other countries don't pose a risk to it, plus despite the horrible things the US does, the US is a lot more responsible then most countries.

Furthermore, Iraq was not about oil.  Have you not noticed that oil prices have done nothing but go up?  To say it's about oil is about the most ignorant statement you can make, even beyond weapons of mass destruction.  I mean, on a list of 20 things iraq was about... oil wouldn't even be on the list. 

Besides, who is saying anything about a war?  We are talking about a bombing campaign like the 4-5 that went on during the Clinton ones.  Stepping aside and letting Iran develop nuclear weapons would be the epitome of stupidity.

You're one seriously deluded person. Of course Iraq was about oil. This is very well understood. It's been US policy since the end of WWII to control the vast energy reserves of the Middle East. It gives the US critical leverage over it's industrial rivals. Nothing to do with oil prices! You think Exxon Mobil and Chevron and all the other western oil companies cry when oil price go up? You don't think think they have a say in US domestic and foreign policy?

And the US a responsible power? Are you serious? Right under the noses of successive US administration who turned a blind eye in each case Israel and Pakistan became nuclear weapons states. Millions of people around the world were killed and tortured as a direct result of either direct US military involvement or military, economic and political support of the US for the most vile regimes on earth.