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Old 01-31-2010, 09:34 PM   #11
piercehawkeye45
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary View Post
Your statements stand as they are. We did not go into Iraq because of Oil or some other fucking bull shit geopolitical reason. If you have some primary source evidence to prove other wise, I mean other than anti-Bush conspiracy theory web sources, I would be glad to read them. Otherwise I have to put your notions into the same category as fringe conspiracy theorists. Hence they are nothing more than speculative opinions of a single person.
You are being too black and white. While I agree with you that our sole or primary reason for going into Iraq was not about securing oil, to say that its position and natural resources did have a direct or indirect factor is ridiculous as well.

Iraq, like Iran and Venezuela, are countries that sit on top of vast natural resources and because of this, these countries are more likely to be watched and gain attention because we are "dependent" on them. Because of this increased amount of attention, the probability of action taken against these countries increases.
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