Quote from: bryant.coleman on September 12, 2014, 05:40:01 AM

Quote from: Rassah on September 11, 2014, 11:58:10 PM

Where does that come from? Were we heavily dependent on Iraq oil? I don't remember Iraq threatening to stop selling it.

Before the American invasion, Iraq was selling its oil to the Chinese and Russian oil companies. After the invasion, the Americans seized all the fields, and distributed them among the US and EU firms, with a few spare ones going to others. Oil was the main reason why the US invaded Iraq. Don't tell me that they were concerned more with some imaginary WMDs.

Imaginary? So I assume saddam gassed kurds by telling his people to collectively pass wind in the kurd's general direction?

Saddam long tried to acquire such weapons and obviously had no qualms about using them for extermination purposes even though he only had fraction of what other nations have.

What really matters is not who holds the biggest stick - it's a matter of who is holding any kind of stick in the first place.

Sargat, northern Iraq. They did find a chemical weapons manufacturing and storage facility during operation viking hammer that was conducted in conjunction with kurdish fighters and US special forces.

Considering US equipment and training, half baked usage of unreliable WMD with inaccurate delivery sytem against moving mobile US troops would have been a waste of time, not to mention not using them would have given idiots like you a reason to be manipulated.

Get the picture? If so, think twice before you bitch about 'WAAH WMD' 'WAAAH oil'