"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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"Stubby" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:
"JohnH" wrote in message But we fought Iraq for
cheap oil!!!

So why don't we have it? Hint: we purchase oil on the world market
like
everybody else. OPEC sets the price.

Bravo for pointing this out...

If our actions in the Middle East are only about "cheap oil", why didn't
we
completely take over Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq after the first Gulf
War
... declare ourselves the "owners" of the Middle East and just take it all
without buying any?


Before the war was started what I was hearing was that it was about the oil.
Not in the sense of cheap oil for the consumer, but to make life better for
the oil companies. Obviously, that theory was wrong since oil is basically
free now, and the oil companies are filing for bankruptcy.