Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
[COLOR="Blue"] Guess what, Iran has a very large oil reserve also, is the light coming on yet?

This type of reasoning has always bothered me, and definately puts a blackmark on liberalism as a whole. People are drawing conclusions based solely on certain consistancies. Specific geographical regions and their resources (the middle east) are going to have specific geographical cultures. Such cultural consistancies are bound to produce similar governments, and therefor similar regions with enemies.

I see far too many people, both right and left, instantly drawing the conclusions that agree with their presuppositions with little to no evidence. In the far-left case, it's stuff like this. Hitler burned down the Reichstag to justify war, so that consistancy is now PROOF that 9/11 was an excuse to go to war. In your case, medicinal, Iran has oil an so BAM, that's PROOF that the war has to be about oil no matter what the political or military situation is. Just because a country has oil, that doesn't excempt them from all other wrongdoing.