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**Nurse_sero** · 02-27-2007, 12:10 PM

No it doesn't. Iraq is opening up their oil to the foreign market, not just the American market. If we, America, went into Iraq simply for oil wouldn't it make more sense for us to have total rights to their oil?

No it wouldn't. Think about it. The US didn't want Iraq's oil, certain western oil companies wanted Iraq's oil. The military invasion and occupation of Iraq by western governments was carried out to secure the oil interests for the oil corporations not the governments of the US and the UK. Western economies don't work that way.

02-27-2007, 12:10 PM	#13
Nurse_sero Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 562 Senior Member	No it doesn't. Iraq is opening up their oil to the foreign market, not just the American market. If we, America, went into Iraq simply for oil wouldn't it make more sense for us to have total rights to their oil? No it wouldn't. Think about it. The US didn't want Iraq's oil, certain western oil companies wanted Iraq's oil. The military invasion and occupation of Iraq by western governments was carried out to secure the oil interests for the oil corporations not the governments of the US and the UK. Western economies don't work that way.
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