And so we went to war in order to protect one of the prime financial centers for terrorism against us. Not a terribly swift move on our part, if you ask me.
By the way, what was Saddam going to do if he got a hold of the oil fields? Not sell us oil? He'd have hurt himself worse than us by doing that. Oil was his revenue. If anything, he probably would have tried to undercut OPEC. But even if he did try to pull some stunt like you seem to be suggesting, we have reserves of our own, not to mention other untapped sources of energy (such as nuclear) as well as the capability to get by with on less energy if we had to. We'd have done (and could still do) ourselves a favor by getting us unhooked from dependency on Middle Eastern oil.
"Not sell us oil? He'd have hurt himself worse "
He did more business withRussia who hadn't yet collapsed into the CIS.
I hate repeating myself:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487007/posts?page=139#139