But all of that assumes that those countries would in some way stop wanting to make boat loads of money by selling oil to the highest bidder.
Should Iraq or any other country stop pumping oil, they would only harm themselves > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:25 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: 12% Support More Troops > > > Nick wrote: > > How? How in the world does us invading Iraq change anything with the > > Oil? > > > > The TOP interest of the US (and, really, the World) is guaranteeing > it's energy supply. No oil, little oil, or an oil embargo would throw > not only the US economy into a tail spin but the world economy. > > To guarantee the US energy supply the US has maintained both political > and military ties to key allies within the Middle East - specifically > Saudi Arabia as they have always sat on 70%+ of the known global oil > supply. > > To ensure that the US can repel any Saudi threat both internal and > external the US must do 3 key things: > > 1.) Maintain a large, fully supplied, strike force capable of > defending Saudi Arabia indefinitely. > > 2.) Maintain close political and personal ties with the Saudi > government. (Prince Bandar, Saudi US Amb, wrote to Pres Bush 1, "You > are my friend for life, one of my family") > > 3.) Maintain stability in the Middle East to prevent oil price and > supply threats in general. > > By invading Iraq Pres Bush hoped to: > > (1.) Establish a permanent military base in the Middle East that > wouldn't inflame the already inflamed Saudi population against the > royal family (thus the US military pullout). > > (2.) Stabilize the region due to US military threat, thus guaranteeing > the US oil flows. > > (3.) Start a "domino effect" that would ultimately create a region of > US allies eliminating the need for US military. > > That's how. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224663 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
