No more wars for oil? Hmmmm.. [View all]

[EX500rider]

I think everyone here has heard that refrain many times and I thought we'd look a little deeper and have a CIVIL discussion about it.

Anywho, here's a list of conflicts the US military has been involved in one way or another since 1900.

Which ones do you feel were all about oil and why?

Philippine–American War
The Boxer Uprising
Nicaraguan Campaign
Pancho Villa Expedition
Haitian Campaign
Dominican Campaign
First World War
Russian Civil War
Second World War
Cold War
Korean Conflict
Merklín Incident
French Indochina War
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Vietnam Conflict
Laotian Civil War
Cambodian Civil War
Congo Crisis
Invasion of the Dominican Republic
Soviet-Afghan War
Invasion of Grenada
Colombian Conflict
Gulf of Sidra incident
Lebanese Civil War
Bombing of Libya
Iran-Iraq War
Tanker War
Second Gulf of Sidra Incident
Invasion of Panama
1st Gulf War-Operation Desert Storm
Iraqi no-fly zones
Somali Civil War
Bosnian War
Kosovo War
War on Terror
War in Afghanistan
Iraq War
War in North-West Pakistan
Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
Second Liberian Civil War
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
Libyan civil war

42 total.

At 1st I thought well, the Tanker War for sure was about oil but on 2nd thought I am pretty sure if Iran had been trying to sink only foreign flagged cargo vessels instead of oil tankers we still would have gotten involved, we just would have called it the "Cargo War" instead.

Also I don't think just because a country HAS oil means any war will be about the oil.
In most cases like Libya and Iraq, who ever ends up in power or was in power is still going to want to pump as much oil onto the world market as possible for the $$$$.