Talk:Your president is a liar

From High School Online Collaborative Writing

Going into the Iraq war it was well known that the war would cost at least 100 to 200 billion dollars. If oil was truly the objective then it's obvious to the most casual observer that a war which consumes massive amounts of oil and costs a great deal of money is a stupid way to get oil.

Why not just buy oil for that much money?

[edit] Is this site supposed to be objective?

There is so much factually wrong here, it's hard to know where to begin. The first person's point is good, spending more oil to get oil isn't smart. What most people don't understand, and is often the shortsightedness many people have, is that global importance of oil. Is this a war about oil? Sort of. It's not about Bush having oil or Americans paying only .50/gallon for our SUVs. Right now, until technology changes, the third world needs a free flow of oil. Without it, they cannot create products for the world to buy, thus lifting them out of poverty, disease, and poor education. Most everything Americans use today is petroleum based. For these Third World countries, if the flow of oil was cut off, they'd remain in poverty. Making sure some nut job dictator in the Middle East doesn't cut off oil for his own purposes is a global concern, much more than for the American gas payer.

Second, and last, we voluntarily withheld ourselves from Iraqi oil with the boycott. If we wanted Iraqi oil that bad, we could have lifted the blocked instead of going to war.