Have we spent MORE Money Trying to Steal er secure Oil than if we had just paid a higher price to Saddam?

I really want to know. Maybe it would have been cheaper. Our soldiers would be intact and our army would have resources. We would still be considered a moral and first rate nation. Our country was operating at a debt surplus prior to Bush and this Iraq debacle.Have we spent MORE Money Trying to Steal er secure Oil than if we had just paid a higher price to Saddam?
Much less expensive in many ways. You are on to something.Have we spent MORE Money Trying to Steal er secure Oil than if we had just paid a higher price to Saddam?
China's steady increase in oil consumption is what drove prices up. If the war were for oil, we'd be getting it cheaper, and in fact gas is very cheap here compared to the world.
You're sorely mistaken if you think the Bush administration invaded Iraq simply to secure oil. But it should be noted that was foremost in the thoughts of a number of very important Bush supporters in the oil industry, to say nothing of a number of current and past members of the Bush administration.
If it were ONLY about oil then perhaps you would be on target. The truth is that it is about much more than just the oil.





It is about using war as a means toward an end. War is by far the easiest way for large companies to increase profits. The oil is a by-product of our war in Iraq and not the ';bottom line'; reason for it.
Don't know and don't care. Besides, all of that is irrelevant





This wasn't ever about oil. It's about doing the right thing: removing Saddam and liberating Iraq.
We are actually there for the water. Haven't you noticed from your bottled water prices going down in your ';Transformer'; lunch box?
The surplus lasted one year, 1996. It came at the expense of the military as Clinton cut it by 50%.


Rebuilding it later after an attack at an inflated price says that the Clinton surplus was actually a net loss.


One could argue that if it were not cut, the attack would not have happened. Don't be fooled by Clinton arithmetic (mystery math).





How does one go about stealing oil?


Do you have any evidence of that?


Secret pipline? Airborne tankers? How does that work exactly?
Sigh.





Once again, according to conspiracy theorist rhetoric and Economics 101, if the supply of oil magically goes UP ... owing to this non existent ';stealing'; of oil ... the price of gasoline should go DOWN.





But it is up, and so is the price of its base resource - oil - per barrel.





God. What is with you people!
The reason for the start of the war may not have been about oil, but the reason we are STILL there is ALL about oil, or more specifically putting a government in place that will allow us direct access to the oil.
So if we are trying to steal it, where the hell is it? 6 years is longer than enough time to take what we already have control of. What you seem to deny is all of the Iraqi oil is pumped to Saudi where OPEC takes it and pays Iraq for that oil not the US. Get it straight or get off the board.