Now there is no if's, ands or buts about it, Saddam was a fruitloop. His down fall ahs made millions happy, but is that really why the US went into Iraq?
I know, I know, they went in to take the oil, right? Wrong. They went in to control the oil.
Everybody who knows how many super powers there are on the planet, shout out your answers.
That's right, one. America.
Now, to keep this as the status qou, the single super power has to keep all the other blossuming super powers in check.
As I pointed out in The hunt for oil or Manifest Destiny in the new millenium? part I. They kept China out of the oile reserves in Tajikistan by routing the oils southward through Afganistan and in to Pakistan. But China is only one of the lil blossums, The European Union is teh other.
The French Government has been sleeping with Saddam for years. Even after Persian Gulf I, they were trading food/aid for oil, with UN approval. Hence why they didn't want to go in with the States and kick Saddams nuts, in Persian Gulf part II.
So who was bennefiting from Frances oil exchange with Iraq? Why the EU, of course. Even though the oil prices seemed high in Europe leading up to PG II. It was not indicative of the greater issues or uses of petrol products. Oil is a power commodity, it can build a Nation or bury it. The States is trying not fall under the latter. The EU getting cut rate Petrolium based products from France would only bolster their economy. And as a multi-Nation power, it would only be a matter of time before they would begin to gain power, authority, and clout on the world stage. This would never do.
So as I mentioned before, oil can make or break a Nation. It's teh same here. The states saw France assisting in the construction or a second super power with the relatively cheap petrol product from Iraq and this had to b e stopped.
Hog wash you say? Lets look at those key airfields that just had to be secured for a military success in Iraq in the openning days of the war. You remember seeing them on CNN every day for a month, don't you? H1, H2, and H3. Ya those ones. They weren't military airfields, they weren't even civilian. They were remote airfields, servicing OIL HUBS. Ya, ya, I know, they just didn't want a repete of the oil fires of PG I. Wrong, Those oil fires, well costly to extinguish, are relatively easy to put out, and don't interupt the flow of oil as bad as a hub being destroyed. A well top can be replaced in weeks, a hub,,,months.
Now that the military have ousted Saddam and Iraq is free, the EU is getting its oil from a newly created puppet state, at a far more bloated cost. More befitting a superpower of its ranking.
So you see Virginia, there is an oil connection, just not the one you thought. I'm hungry, Hunny, pass me the "Freedom Toast, please"
I know, I know, they went in to take the oil, right? Wrong. They went in to control the oil.
Everybody who knows how many super powers there are on the planet, shout out your answers.
That's right, one. America.
Now, to keep this as the status qou, the single super power has to keep all the other blossuming super powers in check.
As I pointed out in The hunt for oil or Manifest Destiny in the new millenium? part I. They kept China out of the oile reserves in Tajikistan by routing the oils southward through Afganistan and in to Pakistan. But China is only one of the lil blossums, The European Union is teh other.
The French Government has been sleeping with Saddam for years. Even after Persian Gulf I, they were trading food/aid for oil, with UN approval. Hence why they didn't want to go in with the States and kick Saddams nuts, in Persian Gulf part II.
So who was bennefiting from Frances oil exchange with Iraq? Why the EU, of course. Even though the oil prices seemed high in Europe leading up to PG II. It was not indicative of the greater issues or uses of petrol products. Oil is a power commodity, it can build a Nation or bury it. The States is trying not fall under the latter. The EU getting cut rate Petrolium based products from France would only bolster their economy. And as a multi-Nation power, it would only be a matter of time before they would begin to gain power, authority, and clout on the world stage. This would never do.
So as I mentioned before, oil can make or break a Nation. It's teh same here. The states saw France assisting in the construction or a second super power with the relatively cheap petrol product from Iraq and this had to b e stopped.
Hog wash you say? Lets look at those key airfields that just had to be secured for a military success in Iraq in the openning days of the war. You remember seeing them on CNN every day for a month, don't you? H1, H2, and H3. Ya those ones. They weren't military airfields, they weren't even civilian. They were remote airfields, servicing OIL HUBS. Ya, ya, I know, they just didn't want a repete of the oil fires of PG I. Wrong, Those oil fires, well costly to extinguish, are relatively easy to put out, and don't interupt the flow of oil as bad as a hub being destroyed. A well top can be replaced in weeks, a hub,,,months.
Now that the military have ousted Saddam and Iraq is free, the EU is getting its oil from a newly created puppet state, at a far more bloated cost. More befitting a superpower of its ranking.
So you see Virginia, there is an oil connection, just not the one you thought. I'm hungry, Hunny, pass me the "Freedom Toast, please"
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