If it is about oil, then why are we paying almost $70/barrel (factor out Katrina)? Seems to me if it was about oil that we would have just secured the pipeline and held only it and got all that free oil. This whole war for oil idea is bogus and here's why. If oil is the reason, then why not attack Saudi Arabia, or any other Middle Eastern country (Note: Please do not take this as a call for war against these nations)? Or, why did we not make Kuwait give us all the oil we wanted for their freedom? Why not go after Iran, it has some? We could also attack and conquer the Spratly Islands which would get us into war with China and several other nations, but it has potentially the fourth largest bed in the world. All these places, and yet we did not try to take them over for their oil, and we are not doing it to Iraq. We may get a deal on Iraqi oil once their government finally takes shape, but we may not.
We are fighting to give the Iraqi people something they have not had in a long time, freedom. Saddam was a threat and needed to be stopped, even though people like Michael Moore seem to think that it was a paradise under Saddam. While most media see the WMD as a bust, I find it hard to believe that Saddam could fool not only our intel., but that of Russia, Britain, and a few other countries. My theory is that he sent them next door to Syria. All of the wars that we fought in the last century and this one were fought to either defend freedom or to bring freedom to people. We have one most, somewhat lost one (Vietnam, though that was mostly the South Vietnamese's fault), and some are still going on (Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq). To say that this is a war for oil is simply denigrating all the sacrifices of those who have served or are serving in Iraq.
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