We’ve heard countless times from conspiracy theorists claims that we went into Iraq to overthrow Saddam for oil. How can anyone give credibility to these conspiracy theory nuts? In my opinion they are very ignorant or simply insane. While most of these people are laughed at behind their back, do you really think they consider that other’s believe them? I tend to think even the insane ones know they are being laughed at as well. It seems every conspiracy theory is based on eliminating one historical event from one’s mind. This is either done by ignorance or insanity.
For instance in this oil conspiracy claim, here is what Saddam Hussein said to Joseph Wilson, US Ambassador to Iraq, four days after he went into Kuwait: “if you do not resist my occupation of Kuwait, do not try to drive me out of Kuwait, I can guarantee you a steady supply of oil at a good price and I will serve essentially as your interests here in the gulf.”
IOW, we were guaranteed a supply of oil at a good price if we DID NOTHING. This is all together different than those that want us to believe the US is trying to steal oil, in most cases with the death of our troops and others. Instead we drove Saddam out for illegal occupation of an ally, just as America has done in the past over and over again in history. The only atrocious entity is the conspiracy theorists and not the USA.