Originally posted by clickwir
Even though we and the UN has proof that Iraq has supplied terrorists with weapons and training for the specific purpose of hurting the US? The UN had 8 YEARS to disarm Iraq and they didn't.
Regardless of what had or had not been done about Saddam, he was a
potential threat more than anything else. The way you deal with a potential threat is to launch a preemptive strike, which is what we have done. Preemptive strikes should not be US policy. I personally think thay our government is doing it with Iraq because they're an easy target. North Korea is a much larger threat (what with their nuclear program and all...) but we're not invading them because we'd take much higher losses.
As for the oil... oil is not the reason we are there. Oil fields were not the first things we went for. Yes they are important, we can't just ignore them. But oil is not one of the main reasons we are there.
Exactly, and it's the same thing with the French. Their economy is actually much less dependent on oil than ours anyway.