Proof America after Libyas oil!

And we still have people (unfortunately) on this forum who insist that America isn't taking oil from Libya despite having any idea of what America is and what they have done in the past.

top 15 oil exporters:

1 Saudi Arabia
2 Russia
3 United Arab Emirates .
4 Iran
5 Kuwait
6 Nigeria
7 European Union
8 Venezuela
9 Norway
10 Canada
11 Iraq .
12 Algeria
13 United States
14 Netherlands
15 Libya

so can we please stop this now?
I would guess that the reason they are intervening is how much publicity there is and how bad they would look if they didn't.

So what other reasons are there, besides humanitarian?

Lol. Libya is still a major oil producer like the articel said. If it is 15th it is still a major oil producer more than worthwhile for invading to take oil from. Jeez. And wheres Egypt on the list ?

If you pull it off well then as a leader you are going to have + publicity, + poll rating etc.. One of Thatchers defining moments was the Falklands.

No one is going to want the country to go into a long drawn out civil war or to see someone who pounds his own citizens into submission stay as leader through violence.

Lol. Libya is still a major oil producer like the articel said. If it is 15th it is still a major oil producer more than worthwhile for invading to take oil from. Jeez. And wheres Egypt on the list ?

top 15 oil exporters:

1 Saudi Arabia
2 Russia
3 United Arab Emirates .
4 Iran
5 Kuwait
6 Nigeria
7 European Union
8 Venezuela
9 Norway
10 Canada
11 Iraq .
12 Algeria
13 United States
14 Netherlands
15 Libya

so can we please stop this now?
I would guess that the reason they are intervening is how much publicity there is and how bad they would look if they didn't.

So David Cameron intervened to become more popular? Couldn't the UN have done this without Britain?
It's happened with other countries.

America's interests lie in the Middle East area regarding oil reserves and supply hence the invasion of Iraq.

France's interest lie in North Africa, hence why they spearheading the attack on Libya.

There was much more slaughtering taking place in Sudan and still millions suffer but our politicians don't invade in order to protect the human rights of the minorities. Why? Because Sudan has no oil.

The same goes for Yemen, a lot of slaughtering is going on for decades, why don't we intervene. Because their oil reserves are minimal and we can get only a few years return out of them.

spending millions of pounds to invade someone based on the fact that they they have less of something than you is in no way worth while.
also why so much america hate since france were the ones pushing for action and then we supported them. the Eu was quite a bit higher on the list than lybia. I mean for god sake canada and the netherlands are higher up if we had a dispute with them would you go "ZOMG OIL" or is it just what you assume based on where libya is?

how popular do you think politicians who sit and watch people being slaughtered by their leaders without even pretending to care would be/. Gadaffi has always been an awful man but noone has done anything about it before because we have actually benifited from him being in power and the average person had no reason for it to cross their minds. now all of this is so public they can't afford to just sit by and let him stay in power any more because of how it would make them look.

Lol. Libya is still a major oil producer like the articel said. If it is 15th it is still a major oil producer more than worthwhile for invading to take oil from. Jeez. And wheres Egypt on the list ?

There was much more slaughtering taking place in Sudan and still millions suffer but our politicians don't invade in order to protect the human rights of the minorities. Why? Because Sudan has no oil.

The same goes for Yemen, a lot of slaughtering is going on for decades, why don't we intervene. Because their oil reserves are minimal and we can get only a few years return out of them.

When the US invaded Iraq the second time, their freedom offensive was called 'Operation Iraqi Liberation', but then someone realize that was giving too much away so they renamed it 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' instead =p
Obviously they want oil. I would invade them for their oil if I had an army, for a hundred dollars a barrel.

top 15 oil exporters:

1 Saudi Arabia
2 Russia
3 United Arab Emirates .
4 Iran
5 Kuwait
6 Nigeria
7 European Union
8 Venezuela
9 Norway
10 Canada
11 Iraq .
12 Algeria
13 United States
14 Netherlands
15 Libya

so can we please stop this now?
I would guess that the reason they are intervening is how much publicity there is and how bad they would look if they didn't.

The same goes for Yemen, a lot of slaughtering is going on for decades, why don't we intervene. Because their oil reserves are minimal and we can get only a few years return out of them.

Are the Netherlands not in the EU?

America's interests lie in the Middle East area regarding oil reserves and supply hence the invasion of Iraq.

France's interest lie in North Africa, hence why they spearheading the attack on Libya.

There was much more slaughtering taking place in Sudan and still millions suffer but our politicians don't invade in order to protect the human rights of the minorities. Why? Because Sudan has no oil.

The same goes for Yemen, a lot of slaughtering is going on for decades, why don't we intervene. Because their oil reserves are minimal and we can get only a few years return out of them.