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War for oil? No. Oil for war? Yes.

writeidea.org — The month that President Bush was sworn into office, gas was averaging $1.70 a gallon. Now, after eight years of war in Iraq, gas is $3.60 a gallon. That is two dollars more to pay—because of the war on terror.

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notque, on 04/14/2008, -12/+5Iraqi oil money should not be used to pay back us. We should be paying them massive reparations for our support of Saddam in the 80's, our brutal sanctions in the 90's that helped starved the population, and our brutal and illegal war crime of aggression against them now.
- Bagos1, on 04/15/2008, -1/+4This is true....don't know why the diggs down. I'm not a pacifist, but the victims here continue to be the Iraqi population..
mrsammercer, on 04/14/2008, -3/+6" Now, after eight years of war in Iraq, gas is $3.60 a gallon."
I didn't know the Iraq war started in April 2000. Man, it's REALLY time to get out of there.
- mejaredme, on 04/14/2008, -1/+1It has been a long time....Regardless if you support the war, or oppose the war...this must be admitted...eight wars is a long time.
  - mejaredme, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Actually, I must correct myself. Bush has been President for eight years, the war in Iraq has only gone on for five--since 2003.
powerofschworz, on 04/14/2008, -4/+7...Well the war was not about to liberate Iraqi people;)
chicofaraby, on 04/14/2008, -5/+7FTSFA: "Kuwait (think Desert Storm) paid the United State $36 billion for its liberation. Iraq should do the same."

The UN authorized the use of force against Iraq in Kuwait in 1990. The dictator... er, Emir of Kuwait asked the UN to get involved. However, the invasion of Iraq is illegal and was never authorized by the UN. It has been called illegal by the Secretary General of the UN. See the difference? One is legal, one is not.

The Iraqis should not have to pay to be raped by the US oil companies. That is insane.
- TYRONEBR549, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1The U. N. has no say so over our right to wage war. They cannot tell us what to do. They are just a bunch of lying bureaucrat thugs who do the bidding of their dictatorial governments. Thes are the most corrupt people on the planet. They are even worse than our Congress. As to whither we should have went to war with Iraq is another matter.
19592, on 04/14/2008, -2/+2I do not think it would be a great idea to ask for payment, I do think that the Iraqis might want to offer us payment if they ever have the means, I do think that the Kurds for example, or at least those who survived and who have witnessed hundreds of thousands of their friends, family, and other Kurds die torturous deaths from mustard gas courtesy of Saddam Hussein, would probably be happy to recompense the US for its sufferings, I doubt if really they cared about UN approval either. Nor do I think that the people who had their tongues cut off, or the people who were stuck in shredders feet first after watching their wives raped multiple times, cared about UN approval . I do not think high gas prices and low approval ratings are such high prices to pay to stop those atrocities.
- chicofaraby, on 04/14/2008, -4/+7Then you should have gone to Iraq and stopped them.
  
  I think one penny is too much to spend murdering Iraqis for ***** reasons.
  - 19592, on 04/14/2008, -2/+3I would most certainly have done that if I could.
    
    I agree, one penny is too much to spend for murdering Iraqis, but it is worth a lot more than a penny to STOP someone (Saddam Hussein) from murdering Iraqis.
    - chicofaraby, on 04/14/2008, -3/+4Are Iraqis murdered by Saddam Hussein more dead than Iraqis murdered by US troops?
    - mejaredme, on 04/14/2008, -2/+4Saddam killed 100000 Kurdish Iraqis, alone. He was unquestionably a mass murderer.
      - chicofaraby, on 04/14/2008, -2/+3What does that make George Bush?
        
        http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.dea ...
        BALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) -- War has wiped out about 655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day since the U.S.-led invasion, a new study reports.
        
        Violence including gunfire and bombs caused the majority of deaths but thousands of people died from worsening health and environmental conditions directly related to the conflict that began in 2003, U.S. and Iraqi public health researchers said.
    - 19592, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Both were very evil and despicable, yes Hitler was on a much larger scale, but you can't just compare the statistics, it's not just hundreds of thousands of statistics, it's ACTUAL PEOPLE, people who have families, kids who need them, and than they get murdered and they just become part of a political debate, we need to think about the real people, not just some statistic.
  - 19592, on 04/15/2008, -1/+2Sadly, some civilian casualties usually result in conflicts, however the US has not killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, nor were they murdered. They are more like martyrs, who gave their lives for a free Iraq and no more mass murders by the regime.
    
    I am wondering if you would ask the same thing, if Jews killed by Hitler in concentration camps are any more dead than those civilians unintentionaly killed by allied forces. I don't see a big difference, Hitler was massacring the Jews, Communists etc. Hussein massacred the Kurds and the Shi'a etc.
Rotzooi, on 04/14/2008, -2/+5That's a better score than Bush could have hoped for. He has increased his family's oil fortune significantly and has been able to solidify the positions of Halliburton, Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell. That it took a 2300 WTC victims, 4000+ dead soldiers, 40,000 maimed soldiers and untold 100,000s of Iraqi dead, is of no concern to him. He looks at the gas prices at the pumps and smiles.
kleenex1, on 04/15/2008, -2/+2I saw an article that Iraq has just been opened up to bidding by roughly 30 US oil companies. They do it so blatantly too. While I believe it was primarily for oil, there are many other special interests that come into play. Cheney with Halliburton (enough said). Defensive positioning in the middle east. Finishing a job his father could not. What's insane is that none of these were in the interest of the people! While an argument could be made that having a defensive position in the middle east is in the best interest of the people, I guarantee every one of you that the forces in power have no intention on using this position with peaceful intentions....only imperialism through forceful persuasion..
embarkadero, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3i would honestly feel 50% better about GWB if he just said, this IS a war for oil and we are going to TAKE some of this oil for the USA.
DarkSamus, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2our uav is online!
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