>> we didn't go there for the oil in the first place.
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>What was the reason?
World domination, perhaps. Ever heard of the "Project for the New American Century"?
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)