Would the USA leave Iraq tomorrow if the oil disappeared today?

Question

Everyone knows that the USA invaded Iraq ONLY because of its oil, make no mistake about it, Saddam was just a pretext for the invasion.

What do you have to say to that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Unfortunately your argument has been exhausted and proven wrong. The oil in Iraq has made no difference here, good or bad. So you guys can't use oil as an excuse anymore.

So, to answer the question, I will hafta say no.

Answer 2

Not only would they leave they wouldn't give them a dime to rebuild the they destroyed.  I love it when conservatives deny that we didn't go to war for oil, but to liberate the Iraqi people, but there are a lot of other countries that are ruled by dictators and the US isn't invading them.  

Answer 3

I say you haven't a clue what your talking about....we NEVER took the oil.....Most goes to the far east and europe...NONE comes here

Answer 4

I agree completely, that it was just a war for oil, and not caring for the Iraqi people. If the oil disappears the US would beat a hasty retreat

Answer 5

not tomorrow, it would take us about a month to pack up all our stuff and get the h**l outa dodge.

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we dont get the oil, you fools, that was never the plan.  we opened up the iraqi fields so that exxon, halliburton and the rest could drill it, pump it, transport it and sell it to india and china.  they make a bundle doing this.  plus they get US military protection for their work sites,  equiptment and everything else.  the tankers even get an escort out of the persian gulf  courtesy of an aircraft carrier and it's battlegroup.

Answer 6

They are the ones that are making the oil to disappear, just like magic.  

Answer 7

Now you see it,

Oops,

Now you don't.

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Answer 8

The war is about oil, it is also orchestrated to destroy the formidable might of the last standing patriarchal Godly nations. America’s invasion of the East towards its destruction and for the benefit of robbing resources and assets is evil in the extreme. The sacrifice of wealth and assets has not in any appeased the gluttonous and insatiable western demagogue who now willfully and openly conspires to further entrench his stand and amass greater wealth by destroying and massacring more lives and civilizations. Indeed where is God? the Eastern innocents may be lamenting …. ?

Answer 9

If the oil disappeared today, they would have been gone today with it.

Answer 10

Umm probably. There would be no point in wasting precious resources to hang onto that hostile region halfway around the globe.

I think that oil was not quite the ONLY reason. The Republican party wants to keep us at war because for some reason most Americans think Republicans are better at foreign policy. Why? I don't know, but they do. So they want to keep us in perpetual war as a way to gain political capital for themselves. However I think that plan is beginning to fail too because people are tired of that war and especially if Obama keeps up his attack on their foreign policies then there will be no reason to continue the war.

Answer 11

Only if all the oil in the middle east disappeared, Bush still wants the military bases.

Edit.

Justin... We never got the chance to drill new oil in Iraq because of the insurgency. I am amazed that even people who think if our oil companies drill off shore it would  solve  out oil problem but do not see how we would benefit if we had the rights to drill in Iraq,. Bush did not want to steal the oil,  he wanted drilling rights for US companies.

Answer 12

Yes.

Regards.