The war isn't about oil. The war's about maintaining/attaining a free world. Irraq had oil to sell before. The country was in the hands of a criminal enterprise that back jihadi interests. Their interests were in getitng WMDs to exert their criminal power on the free world. The criminal enterprise that posed the threat to the free world was eliminated. Iran poses the same danger as criminal jihadists with nukes. Oil is irrelevant. Jihadi conquest is not. Jihadi conquest through threat, terrorism and any other form of intimidation is what our action opposes. We're not there to get oil.
"Does anyone else find it ironic to see a guy in a two-ton pickup on the news complaining about gas prices, even while he sports a "support our troops" bumper sticker?"
Feel good propaganda really tuggs at the liberal heartstrings. I suppose the WWs, the Cold war(WWIII), Korea and Nam were just for a few big business interests. Like this one is for big redneck and oil.
Go a month without consuming any oil. No products created, transported, fertilized, packaged with the benefit of oil.
Done? Tell me again that oil is irrelevant?
I do get your point that the leftist chant was no blood for oil, but I didn't see them walking to those protests either.
The war is absolutely about oil. Without oil, Saddam wouldn't have the resources to threaten his neighbors or us. Without oil, Iran would not be manipulating the market like it is. Without oil, Saudi terrorists wouldn't haven't been able to raise the funds to launch attacks. Every time we fill up our pump, we are directly or indirectly sending money to fundamentalist regimes in the MiddleEast. And when they begin to act up, we pay through our taxes (or our children will) to send our forces over there (not to mention the great sacricifices that we ask our enlisted soliders to make)
I'd contend that in today's world, the most patriotic person on the road is not the person in a big SUV with an american flag bumper sticker, it's the guy on a bicycle.