[OldFriend]

If it was about oil we wouldn't have saved the oil wells.

But then the idiots want to believe what they want to believe and facts be damned pesky things.

[LibertarianInExile]

The best rejoinder to that "no blood for oil" crap that I've seen is this: if the U.S. is so hot on getting Iraq for its oil, why? Isn't Venezuela both closer and a bigger provider? Isn't Venezuela a more defensible intervention, since it IS in our 'sphere of influence' under the Monroe Doctrine? Isn't intervention in Venezuela more likely to protect immediate U.S. interests, since there is an actively socialist president there that might yet completely nationalize the wells and refineries?

Pose those questions to an idiot protestor and watch the jaw go slack and eyes go glassy.