This post is so ignorant I thought woomby wrote it. Look, if we wanted to "steal oil" then we would just seize the oilfields, pump the stuff out, load it on tankers, sell it and keep the proceeds for ourselves. That's not what happened. Not in Iran. Not in Iraq. Not in Libya.
When we invaded Iraq we never took or kept a dime of the proceeds from their oil sales. Every dollar flowed right back into the coffers of the Iraqi government to be spent as they saw fit. (Ditto for Iran and Libya.) That's not "stealing oil".
See the difference, COG?
We never even used any Iraqi oil to reimburse ourselves for the costs of our Iraq intervention. Perhaps we should have, but it would have deprived the Iraqis of their main revenue source.
China is the biggest buyer of Iraqi oil these days. And our fleet in the Persian Gulf keeps the shipping lanes open for them.
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Originally Posted by lustylad
You are truly ignorant... you think the world would stand for us just marching in and walking out with oil? Why would we do that when we can make the oil guys AND the defense contractors rich at the same time? It's a slow bleed, you fucking ignoramus, but someone with your lack of imagination is always two steps behind.
Before we got to Iraq, their oil industry was nationalized. US and other foreign oil companies could not do business there. Guess who is doing business there now? Even the brass knew it:
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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.
But of course Lusty Tard knows better than the head of fucking CENTCOM
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same in 2007: "People say we're not fighting for oil.
Of course we are."
"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."
Or others in the know
It wasn't about taking their oil or using their proceeds to fund the war, you goddamn idiot. It was about getting the oil companies in there so they could do business. Why run down and fuck one cow when you can walk down and fuck them all? Idiot.