Quote Originally Posted by PharmaCan
This war was started to keep Iraqi oil in the ground. Saddam's biggest crime was not WMDs - it was developing Iraqi oil fields.

This was never about getting Iraqi oil. Their fields/oil rights were divided in the 1920's, with the intent to keep the oil in the ground to keep supplies down.

PCimp:
Maybe that is the deal they had worked out with Sadam, or his predecessors, But this is now and the oil Barons are lunging at the gates. With 3.00++ a gallon gas, you better believe this is about oil. With the oil contracts the US has forced on the Iraqi government, the Iraqis only get 15% of all the new reserves, the largest in the world, maybe 2nd largest, but huge. So if you are trying to convince me that they want to leave this oil in the ground when they will make 10 times the profit on it than say the Saudi oil, get real. All they have to do is extract the oil, it's like drilling for water, it's everywhere, then transport it to the docks, and Viola, instant profit.