re: #316 Dark_Falcon

To answer that: I did not say we invaded for oil. What I said is that Iraq has something we need and that makes it more important than Afghanistan. Afghanistan is only important in as far as its strategic position and its danger if it is a failed state. Simply put:

Iraq is a more important theater because it is a more important country.

Again, you miss the point. Oil exports today from Iraq are about what they were in February 2003. That supply was secure because Saddam’s regime depended on it to stay in power. His teeth were pulled after Desert Storm. He was no longer a threat to our interests in the region.

If it was *really* a war on terror, Afghanistan was The Front. Unless you wanted to invade and destroy Salafism in the Kingdom. Iraq? Pfft.

You keep dancing around your original statement. Iraq is “a more important country”. It “has something we need”. What would that be?