Kasz216 said:
kupomogli said:
osed125 said:
kupomogli said: Is the US military going to do anything about this or no? |
They didn't do anything on Egypt nor Libia a couple of years ago. Don't see them doing anything here either.
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Start spreading rumors that the country has a large untapped oil reserve. That's why the US attacked Iraq, even if they say it's for other reasons.
I guess all we can hope is that it passes over quickly and doesn't escalate.
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A) No that wasn't why the US attacked Iraq. The USA didn't even end up getting a lot of the Iraqi oil. It mostly went to the Chinese.
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I'm no expert but this seems pretty convincing...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz/
"Of course it's about oil; we can't really deny that," said Gen. John Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command and Military Operations in Iraq, in 2007. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan agreed, writing in his memoir, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." Then-Sen. and now Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same in 2007: "People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are.
For the first time in about 30 years, Western oil companies are exploring for and producing oil in Iraq from some of the world's largest oil fields and reaping enormous profit. And while the U.S. has also maintained fairly consistent level of Iraq oil imports since the invasion, the benefits are not finding their way through Iraq's economy or society.