Complete this; "If there was no oil under Iraq, _______ "

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[truebrit71]

1. Saddam Hussein would still be alive and in power...

...pretty straight forward...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. No he wouldn't.

The U.S. never would have installed him in the first place.

[cali]

2. we wouldn't be there.

that was easy.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. The U.S. military wouldn't be there now

right?

[bdamomma]

5. we would not be there.

great minds think alike on this question.

[radfringe]

6. we'd be invading whatever country had the oil over there

because we don't have it over here

[FiveGoodMen]

18. That's my take as well.

[Javaman]

19. hell if there was oil in rhode island moron* would have invaded it. nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Iraq would be going on the same as it was before March of 2003

Perhaps even better than that, I doubt that Saddam would ever have been in power either.

[Klukie]

8. Many would be among the living.

[BOSSHOG]

9. bush would have attacked Norway

[coalition_unwilling]

15. or Mexico or Venezuela

[snappyturtle]

10. Saddam Hussein would still be in power. nt

[Glorfindel]

11. It would be as important to us as the Central African Republic

n/t

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

12. earth thought......

oil under the earth acts as a cushioning. removing vast quantities of oil after time, causes earth to gyrate increasingly violently. grinding. moving. shifting.

[againes654]

13. Bush would never have been re-elected

maybe????

[coalition_unwilling]

14. Rumsfeld wouldn't have traveled to Baghad in 1983 as

Reagan's special envoy.

[Gregorian]

16. We might still have a federal surplus.

Damn you, Bob Weaver! I love these fill in the blank posts.

PS- I'm wearing my Black Cat shirt as I type this.

[Gregorian]

17. One million dead Iraqis would still be alive.

[gilpo]

20. ....then: Iraq? what's Iraq? nt

[rndmprsn]

21. we could not give two shits about them...

i guess if the A-rabs didn't have any oil we would treat them like we did african tribes...in other words ignore them.

[NoGOPZone]

22. Thered be no US soldiers patrolling OVER Iraq nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. It would be like Uganda

A maniac in charge, and we don't give a shit.

Where is my good friend Idi Amin these days?

Oh yeah, he's dead.

Regards.

[Marr]

24. ... it might be a democracy.

It seems one of the best ways to ensure your government will be a dictatorship is to build on top of oil reserves.

[BB1]

25. There would be a forest

growing on top of it

[L. Coyote]

26. we would be fighting somewhere else.

[Larry Ogg]

27. The green zone would be in Tiran… n/t

[blm]

28. Iraq who? What's an Iraq? There's a place actually called Iraq?

.

[Junkdrawer]

29. Mexico, Venezuela, and Libya would be the Axis of Evil. n/t

[HuffleClaw]

30. saddam could have bbq'd christian babies in public and bush would have done nothing n/t

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31. Pretty much of a consensus here. I wonder what the replies at FR would be.