[SuziQ]

does anyone really think we'd have been over there if there wasn't any oil? We manage to stay out of the dozens of 'aggressions' that occur in Africa, etc.

Last time I looked, there weren't any African nationals flying planes into buildings (like the terrorists) or rolling their tanks into other nations to take them over for THEIR oil (like Saddam in 1990).

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"Last time I looked, there weren't any African nationals flying planes into buildings."

They weren't Iraqis, either.

[jjm2111]

"Last time I looked, there weren't any African nationals flying planes into buildings (like the terrorists) or rolling their tanks into other nations to take them over for THEIR oil (like Saddam in 1990)."

Very true, but I think the U.S. Gov't handling of the region would be much different if it weren't for the oil. (Like we wouldn't be kissing the Saudi's behinds right now.)

However, if all we really wanted was oil, we could kiss every Arab despots backside until they did business with us. What they did to their own citizens was their problem.