[Darksheare]

"In fact ragheads killing each other seems like a marvelous thing to me."

You're forgetting our interests in the area.
We didn't need Iraq invading Kuwait let alone Saudi Arabia.
That would have given Saddam a larger control of oil production, and certainly he would not have been friendly with us about it.
As it sat, he was friendlier with 'soviet bloc' nations.

In essence, giving Saddam control over a massive amount of oil would have been the same as giving the Russians a controlling share of oil production.
At the time, we didn't need that.

Remember, Russia didn't collapse into the CIS until after Desert Storm.

[DeeOhGee]

Well, that points to a need to develop our own sources of energy, which means telling the environmentalists to sit down, shut up and color. Nuke plants, drilling in Alaska, more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico...we should not have our foreign policies dictated by ragheads with oil. We need to have the ability them to go pound sand.

I think April Glaspie's comments when Iraq first accused Kuwait of stealing oil was right on: It's an Arab matter.