Fighting a war for OIL is about as stoooopid as stooooooooopid gets. Iraq doesn’t have enough OIL to cover the cost of the military campaign that is being fought there.
That doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Look at the so called ‘civil war’ here in the States.
Southerners had no major problems with freeing slaves. The problem the plantation owners had was with the loss of capital involved with those slaves. A Prime Buck would fetch 400$US at auction. This was when a dollar a day was good money. Large Plantations had thousands of slaves, so it was a considerable investment in capital.
A group of Southern Senators offered to sell the slaves to those that wanted to free them, which would have been the smart thing to do. A group of northern industrialists looked at that huge pool of cheap labor that would be created and said no to buying and freeing the slaves.
SO there was war instead. That war cost the country 10X what buying and freeing the slaves would have cost, not counting the death, destruction and misery.
So spending 2.5 trillion to steal 300 million in OIL is just the sort of thing Congress specializes in. Voters get EXACTLY the Congress they want. If you are tired of watching crooked congressmen steal from you, vote them out.
