Such a fascinating era we are living in

[daihashi]

Oil is really the central issue here, almost all things happening in the world today can be traced back to petroleum in some way. America is in a war for oil (go ahead a dilute yourself if you dont belive that).

Hrm.. well seeing as how we haven't gotten any oil from Iraq and OPEC keeps a pretty tight leash on it's oil... combined with the fact that we actually get most of our oil from the following:

Canada
Mexico
Nigeria
Venezuela
Brazil

This equals well over 50% of where we get our oil from. Only 19% of the US oil comes from middle eastern countries. Mostly from Saudi Arabia and Algeria.

We had gotten oil from Iraq before through the oil for food program.. or something similar. Which was a widely abused system. Giving out weapons for oil instead from other countries. I don't think the US has participated in giving weapons to Iraq since they had originally put the baath party in power.

If you absolutely must find some corrupt reason for the war you should be arguing that George Bush and Cheney started the war in order to gain contracts that would line their own pockets.

There is more fact to back that statement then there was your original statement that we went to war for Oil, but I don't necessarily believe that to be true either.

All I know is that we didn't go over there for WMD's it seems and that we've gained absolutely nothing from this war.

I would be ecstatic if we were getting more oil from iraq now. That would actually give us something to show for all the deaths and debt we've gone through

Instead we have nothing to show for this war.

Use your heads people. :wtf:



I do agree with the basic jist of your post though. In that something drastic is going to happen related to the oil based economies across the globe. :thumbsup:

daihashi Reviewed by daihashi on 06-06-2008. Such a fascinating era we are living in As I sat here on my desk getting stoned I thought of all the new changes that are about to erupt. The oil crisis, global warming, the conflicts with Iran, America's declining economy and so on and it seems that the more I read up on the news the crappier things are getting. I'm not saying there's gonna be a whole new social revolution or America is going to crumble or whatever, but regardless there is no doubt in anyone's mind not just in America but in the entire World, that shit is about to Rating: 5