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Originally posted by Masklinn:
Thoran, do you really think that Iraq being the 2nd oil producer of the middle-east is just an unfortunate coincidence ? 
I'm not saying it's the main reason though. But it counts for sure.
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No I think that if we'd wanted oil we'd have been able to buy all that we wanted, and if that was the case the sanctions would have been lifted long ago. Saddam has never proven a difficult man to "do business" with. Why would the US go through the cost and risk of a war, so that at the end we can buy oil from Iraq... when we could have bought oil from Iraq at any time by lifting sanctions.
"War for oil" makes absolutely no sense, and the existance of such a resource in Iraq does not automatically mean it's a factor.