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Quote: Originally Posted by Killerdrgn actually if we wanted cheap oil we would have set up another friendly dictatorship. Has the highest cost to benefit ratio. Think of it, setting up a strongman dictator thats friendly to US interests and support him from afar with weapons and money as long as the oil is free flowing and cheap. Easy, and comparitively cheap compared to long term occupation. Heck we could sanction genocide too, so the guy could keep the peace and not worry about civil war. Unfortunatly all we have is just another idiot in the office and a bunch of morons in the senate and house.

US did that with Saudi's Royalty even though the King and his sons are not always in concert with US' plan. We installed them while Britain and France kick him from his promised land after WWII. America supported to sector that part of Middle East to become Saudi Arabia in the UN. US protect him from Saddam in the Kuwait crisis (Bush senior) Desert Storm. Do you realize more than half of the 911 attackers come from Saudi-not Iraq nor Afghanistan and we did not invade Saudi for housing terrorists. Whatever propaganda Bush junior said "you cannot distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam is plain lie. Al Qaeda offered Saudi's royalty the service to fight Saddam in Kuwait Crisis but the royalty decided to ask US for help instead. Saddam and bin Laden are dead enemies.

The one who can become a dictator in Iraq seems to be the one who always wanted US out-Al Sadr. Our administrattion would never want him to be in power. Al Sadr's party is the one who rejected their oil bill the most which give US the privilege of pumping oil there. That's one reason why their oil bill never get passed and our politicians keep on saying that some key political pointers are not met-one of which is the oil bill.