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Originally Posted by Christ
So.. umm.. what was Desert Storm (burning oil fields...) and the first Iraqi war... (burning oil fields...) and...
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That was due to Saddam Hussein's desire for conquest. Now he might not have been blind to the fact tha Kuwait had those oil wells, and that (if his conquest had been successful) he could use the revenue from them to fund further conquests, but the war wasn't FOR the oil.
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You can't honestly say that none of these battles, or others through history, had anything to do with oil or the control of resources without making yourself look a fool in the eyes of the entire world.
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There's a big difference between saying that oil is not a factor at all, and saying that the war is FOR the oil, or primarily about oil. Claiming that it is makes you look as though you're ignorant of fourteen centuries of history, Middle Eastern politics of the last half century, and the tenets of one of the world's major religions.