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I wasn't even thinking about the drugs. Is that a real thing? North Korean nuke isn't a real concern. Iraq had no goal. The stated reason was WMDs and 9/11, so
by morshu9001 10mo ago
I wasn't even thinking about the drugs. Is that a real thing? North Korean nuke isn't a real concern.
Iraq had no goal. The stated reason was WMDs and 9/11, so bogus and unrelated. Stability wasn't our concern either, I mean we funded Saddam Hussein to begin with. US companies did set up oil drilling, but I really don't think the driving motivation was oil, otherwise we'd have gone to Venezuela first.
- Forgeties79 10mo agoYou think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan was not related to oil?
- morshu9001 10mo agoAfghanistan has no oil. Iraq does, but the US showed no interest in taking it for decades. It was most likely pushed by our "greatest ally" there who also has no oil.
- Forgeties79 10mo agoI highly suggest you look into the Afghan pipeline project.
- morshu9001 10mo agoI know about this one, it's eh. There are pipelines everywhere and no smoking gun.
- Forgeties79 10mo agoThe point is that there are certainly oil interests in Afghanistan. To act like there aren’t is inaccurate.
- morshu9001 10mo agoOk, to put it this way, we'd have gone into Afghanistan with or without the possibility of a pipeline.
- morshu9001 10mo agoOh also they didn't even set up that pipeline during all the time we were there
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- mothballed 10mo agoThe Kurds are our greatest ally in Iraq and they most definitely have lots of oil in addition to letting US operate on their territory in exchange for protecting the oil interests. I suppose you could say that's not us taking the oil but we still get value like we had taken the oil and provided fair market rate to host bases in exchange.
- BurningFrog 10mo agoSaddam was already selling the oil at fair market rate.
- mothballed 10mo agoI said fair market rate to host bases. Saddam was definitely not leasing us military at fair market rate in Iraq (or Syria for that matter, where Kurds also host US base).
- BurningFrog 10mo agoI see that now. Sorry for my sloppy reading.