(March 16, 2014 at 9:56 am)Rahul Wrote:(March 16, 2014 at 9:52 am)jimmyk2190 Wrote: so how did the war in the middle east benefit the us. Many people believe that 9/11 was planned. Few people believe that osama was killed. Also gas prices around the world are very high. and five oil producing nations were invaded
I'm always curious when people say we invaded Iraq for oil. We buy less than 13% of our oil from the Middle East and that most all from Saudi Arabia. We buy most of our oil from the New World nations.
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150444802/...-surprised
That's kinda the poin; to your average American, the oil isn't that big a deal. To the oil companies, who can finally get to oil that before the invasion was specifically off limits, it was a huge deal.
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