Originally Posted by: HammurabiThe war for oil idea doesn't make much sense to me. Don't we get most of our oil from Saudi Arabia, whereas most Iraqi oil goes to Germany and France?

I could be wrong, but I would be surprised if we're importing very much more oil from Iraq now than we did before the war.

Don't we get our oil from OPEC, or do we import directly from a given country. I though OPEC was created so all those oil producing countries wouldn't get into price wars with one another and sell us their precious black gold at rock bottom prices. I could be wrong, that was just my impression.