should we have kept iraqi oil

[Dill]

(01-27-2017, 12:06 AM)bfine32 Wrote: All that and you didn't answer the simple 8 word question at the beginning of the post. 

It's good to know (aka google) stuff, but it is better when that stuff is used to answer a question posed. 

You posed two options in answer to your own question of why Hitler declared war--were we "chillin" or trying to be the world's police?

The "google stuff" establishes why the US was not acting and could not act as the world police, during or before 1941. Ergo, US "world policing" neither caused Hitler to declare war nor motivated the US to invade Germany.

And then I answered this question:


>>When did Germany invade the U.S.? (aka when were Americans threatened by Hitler?<<

And we went down this track because of your analogy between the invasion of Nazi Germany and that of Iraq--"Your question is sort of like: Sure Hitler was bad but why did we invade Germany." 

As if we invaded Germany because Hitler was bad. Just being world police.

And so we invaded Iraq to help the Iraqi's people, like we invaded Germany to help the German people.

Finally, while we are on the subject of answering questions, that long list of Saddam atrocities, which I presume was Googled, did not answer the question of why the US invaded Iraq. As Oncemore and others have noted, the US had little to say against Saddam when he was our Bulwark against Iran. Suddenly you would have us believe that we invaded Iraq because Saddam was bad in the 1980s, and not for the reasons officially given by the Administration to Congress and the UN in 2002-03.

Google is little help if you don't already know your history.