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You make a good point about the fact that if it were not for the oil there, not many people would give a flying fig for the Middle East. But as for this particular conflict, I don't think it has anything to do with Pres. Bush's desire to take over the Middle East Oil fields or enrich his oil company buddies. The oil companies, I'm sure, would prefer to avoid conflict because that is disruptive to discovery and delivery. He believes because of certain intelligence information that Saddam Hussein is a threat not only to his neighbors, but to us because of the easy delivery of death by proxy, a la 9/11.

agreed, but remember that the idiots over there would have no motive, no funds, and no technology required to significantly annoy us if there was no oil, if we had not dumped gazillions of bucks into their economy, etc... SoDamn Insane would have no funds with which to pursue WMD or conventional military dominance in the area nor any motive for doing so. So, again, this looming conflict does revolve around an axis greased by oil. Our immediate motive? Squashing as many ticks as need be so that the rest learn to leave us alone. Not greed, as the "no blood for oil" crowd believes.