Which war? We LOVE wars, period. It is good business. Building up the military is actually one of the best businesses. And we have to use the stockpile, otherwise there would be new orders, agreed?
I take it you refer to the Iraq war. That is easy. Here you have to follow the line of reasoning.
1. USA gets 60% of its oil from outside and this will INCREASE in the future.
2. Iraq has the 2nd biggest oilreserviors on Earth.
3. Iraq was also a danger to Israel (not to the US), my strongest lobby, and you have to agree, I have to do what my influence wants me to do.
4. Also oil is peaking right now, so in the future the ME oilreserve area is the big PRIZE. Whoever controls it, controls everybody.
Now, this is not just getting access to it, but also DENYING access to my competitors, meaning China or whomever wants to rule the world. We do, nobody else should. Clear?
You wouldn't want the Chinese taking over Iraq with some kind of false WMD casus beli, would you? It is better us then them or anybody else.
Of course we had to cook up some stupid story what the average American would eat up, and WMD seemed just fine. After all, we sold a shitload of it to Saddam, who the hell thought he got ride of them?? That is a honest mistake...
Then we switched the goal to the Iraqi freedom. This sounds as good as any...
But the real reason is oil, and I bet you don't want to pay 3-4$ a gallon for your gas, do you?
We miscalculated the locals a bit, because we don't know psycology too much. After all nobody likes occupiers. And boy, we going to stay there until the last drop of oil, I promise you...
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