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These sobering facts, unknown to Americans who get all their news from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, and CNBC
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Hmm...all of these...so called... "sobering facts" were known to this American...but I also watch the History Channel...PBS...and C-Span...and occasionally the BBC...as well as read news papers.
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Fact Number 8: Iraq is the Mideast?s second largest oil producer. Although this is a fact that everyone knows, it is downplayed by all proponents of the war with Iraq. But if oil has nothing to do with the U.S. intervening in Iraq, then why hasn?t the U.S. intervened in Sudan, where 2 million Christians have been killed during the past decade? What about the persecution of Christians in Indonesia? Why hasn?t the U.S. intervened in Zimbabwe, where the Marxist tyrant Robert Mugabe has been confiscating the country?s farmland? Why has Fidel Castro ? 90 miles away from our shores ? been untouched for 40 years? Why didn?t the U.S. instigate a "regime change" when Idi Amin was killing thousands of his own black people in Uganda in the 1970s? Why didn?t the U.S. instigate a "regime change" when the Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu government of Rwanda in 1994? Would things have been different if Sudan, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Uganda, and Rwanda had significant oil reserves?
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Easy answer to all of the questions asked...the US government does what it perceives to be in its best interests...as do all governments. Of course oil plays a role in the world economy and more so in the ecomomy of the western world...including Europe...and Iraqi oil is much more important to Europe than it is to the US. The US has its own fossil fuel supply and much of Europe does not. Oil is but one factor...from multiple factors...for the "regime change" in Iraq...and probably not even on the short list of factors.