Yes, you have my permission to harm me for that dreadful pun but I really couldn't resist. Omar of Iraq The Model has posted a brilliant piece on the farce of everyone's favourite Anti-War slogan "No Blood for Oil".
Countless times I've tried to explain the reasons why this is such a load of bollocks but as has been said before "You can't reason someone out of an argument they didn't arrive at through reason".
It completely ignores the fineries of the matter and is totally refuted by the evidence. If the US wanted Iraqi Oil all they had to do was say "Hey Mr Hussein, let us buy some of your Oil". Heavens sakes the amount of Oil was restricted. They only had to lift the sanctions if they wanted some and you can be damn sure, as proven by his previous actions that Saddam would have happily cashed the big ol' check and built his next 14 palaces.
I find it so naive for someone to think that the USA is spending 4 billions a month to "steal" 1,5 billions. The USA has already spent (or assigned) over 200 billion dollars, which requires the Americans to wait for over 10 years to get their money back. What a great investment!!!
Anyhow here's the full argument as to why it wasn't about the oil.
You can't argue much with those figures.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at December 1, 2003 08:02 PM | TrackBack