Quote Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
So let me get this straight. Congress allowed this war in order to use more oil? If that were their sole plan they would have destroyed every oil field in Iraq rather than trying to protect them. If their key goal were to get oil prices to rise that is...

So, the war was about getting more oil at cheaper prices which hasn't happened, or the government was trying to make oil tycoons richer by using more with their fighter jets and tanks...?

Or we viewed Iraq as a key territory to control in the Middle East in preparation for a war with Iran. That seems like a more logical deduction than a war for oil. But that's just me. My theory does seem to be gaining support though with the reports of Israel using U.S. air bases in Iraq and the sheer location of the country in relation to Iran and Israel.
Well first off, congress really didn't know what the facts were. They didn't have the plan of authorizing the war for more oil, that was the administration. Congress was kept in the dark, and was reeling in the aftermath of 9-11.
Attacks on oil are cited as reasoning behind price surges for gasoline almost every day now. The US doesn't need to go in and blow them up to get the prices up, thats just the job of big players in the market whose speculation is everything to its stability. So everytime they tell us some shit about an oil reserve being inactive, or someone blew it up, or some accident happened...it is all bullshit to cover the fact that the speculation is whats causing unrest.
Nobody said the war was for more oil at a cheaper price for you or me..it is sold at a cheap ass price to US and other companies who are making millions. And they jack the price through speculation in the marker - just to twist the knife in a bit more. Their intent was never to provide the public with cheap gas! It is to get rich off price fixing. Because after all, what can we do? We're addicted to the stuff right? We'll pay anything! Heaven forbid a woman can't fill her SUV to take little Billy to soccer practice!That is what the bigwigs know, and the rest of us need to try to disprove. Quite simply, they have us by the balls.

Anyone notice its awfully coincidental how this situation is hitting its worst levels now in the last year of the administration. Just a thought, but I think we will see relief with the change in administration.
Your theory on the other hand is incredibly plausible. I have no complaint with that. But its again only one in a list of hundreds of reasons that this war has taken place. Some we know, some we will never know.