I find it hard to believe that just because some guy not on our friend's list has WMD's, means we can go over there and attack them for no damn reason, except for that they have WMD's.
And no chris, we're not going to Africa next. Only thing we can get there, is stuff for plutonium, that's about it. And this isn't the 80's. We got enough nukes already. If we DID go there, it would be to sell plutionium to small countries, then to use that as an excuse to go there. KINDA like what we did with Iraq. Just we sold them things other than nukes. If you ask me, it's the perfect plan. And I got nothing against it. Cause I'm evil money hungry wonderful friend that, that places paper over blood.
As for your comment regarding oil, if I recall correctly, a good plan on what we're trying to do, is starve out our enemies into buying OUR oil. (And having close relations to all oil companies, so we could obtain an near monopoloy on it) And make sure that no other types of alternatives are made. If we can do this, we would basically control the entire world. Just the hard thing is keep the consumer, (The enemy countries) to NOT find an alternative. And if someone does, you "nuetralize" them. So you would have to keep your eyes open even better. Get a better foreign and domestic intelligence service going on. But for the domestic, you can't just spy on someone with out a good reason. Ah, but with the patriotic act, we can do just that. Right when X scientist discovers formula, or when engineer creates plans for X car, we "nuetralize" them. Man, this plan may be dead wrong, but the president would be proud of me for thininking up something like this for him. (Considering it's good) And infact, I may even be a fool to think that is what they're doing. Hell, they could be doing something much more sneaky, and greedy then my idea. I need to get into politics and pose as a moral and ethical person right away, so I can get me a piece of what ever that pie is.

EDIT: Noticed I barely responded to your oil comment, I got carried away on my economic plan of taking over the.... I mean....of getting uhhhh.......more ummmm....freedom for the world, Ya. Here is my actual reponse to it:
If oil prices are going down, and Iraq has oil, then all that means is that bush is a :censored:ing idiot when it comes to economics. But a genius when it comes to politics. So that when the avg repub could defeat the avg demo by saying, "well, we didn't take any of their oil. See now? We DID go there to protect our country." And so that they could have a higher chance of remaining in power.
Even if that does happen, we basically control Iraq's politics and economics right now. We basically tell them who they can sell oil to for X price. Like, we and X countries will have low prices, while the other X countries will have high prices. Best way to take down an enemy country, is make them go through a depression, which can then lead to a revolution. Look out north korea!
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It was more like the dude not on my friend's list was killing every one in his family.
.......and we don't really control Iraq to the extent your talking about becuase remember the first battle of Fallujah (sorry if it is misspelled) ???? We took over a third of the city and we were continueing to kill off the terrorists, but of course Arab news channel agents were in the city filming only the houses that were destroyed (in the first battle the city was pretty much intact) and it made American soldiera look like barbarians, so the IRAQI governing counsel ordered our marines to pull out, which we did.
So you see? Iraqis pretty much control their own future, we are just there to make sure not too many of them get blown up.