On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 9:37:34 AM UTC-4, AM wrote:


I don't think people know or understand what happened at the end of the
first gulf war.

An armistice was signed. All that meant was a cessation of hostilities,
that's it. The war was NOT over ! Add to that Hussein violated un
resolution 1441 which in and of itself was cause and just grounds for
resumption of hostilities. It's amazing how ignorant of the history of
this fact (s) people are !

We have a similar case wrt N. Korea. The war never ended there, just a
cessation of hostilities.

And of course Korea had no significant oil reserves, so hostilities there must have been over something else. Same with Vietnam.

While Saddam might have invaded Kuwait over oil, the coalition was more interested in liberating Kuwait on general principles.

If someone has a problem with "oil wars," then he should demonstrate his displeasure with oil by not using any.