Interview with WWII reconaissance pilot

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Originally Posted by Triggaaar

If Iraq did not have oil, the gulf wars wouldn't have happened.

Of course. Should we have just let our Western-way of civilization collapse or held hostage by some third world despot gaining control of over half the oil reserves in the world?? It is very easy to sit in your apartment in Bern or The Hague and complain how the evil Americans are starting illegal wars. We are not happy about policing the world but this goes back to getting dragged into two world wars and not letting that happen again

Iraq was not some "innocent" country that the USA invaded to take over their oil reserves

If we were as terrible as many in the Euro-left believe, we would have taken over Iraq oil and not paid them a cent for it...we didn't even get a discount on it