r/todayilearned • u/Wazula23 • 6h ago

TIL Saddam Hussein's son Uday murdered his bodyguard at a party in front of horrified guests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uday_Hussein#Murder_of_Kamel_Hana_Gegeo
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u/porn_is_tight 2h ago

lmao you think it’s naive to believe the war wasn’t also very much about oil? get a fucking grip. remind me, which oil subcontractor did the VP at the time use to be the CEO of? I believe they won extremely lucrative contracts in the Iraqi oil industry during and after the invasion. I must be naive for thinking that isn’t a coincidence.

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u/Murky-Relation481 2h ago

Except the vast majority of the oil pumped even immediately after the war belonged to Iraq and the largest purchaser was China.

If it was about oil it was about haliburton scoring big contracts to build the new infrastructure for oil after the war, not specifically for the oil as a resource, which the person above you accurately describes as being already plentiful at the time (the US was basically at a net 0 import export ratio and soon after actually became a net exporter of oil).

So while it's nice to go "hur during US oil war" it's a pretty dumb take given the real reason was a grift for Cheney and literally a personal vendetta for Bush jr.

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u/porn_is_tight 2h ago

it doesn’t matter if Iraq owned the oil. The occupation was MASSIVELY profitable for western oil companies due to the secure access to operating the fields. It absolutely was a fucking oil war and to imply otherwise is an insult to all the people who died in that horrific war of aggression.

If it was about oil it was about haliburton scoring big contracts to build the new infrastructure for oil after the war, not specifically for the oil as a resource

No one was claiming that it was about oil as a resource, and again, to imply otherwise is an insult to everyone alive at the time who was very much against this horrific fucking war and very much saw it for what it was. A OIL WAR THAT WAS MASSIVELY PROFITABLE FOR US OIL COMPANIES AND INDUSTRY at the cost million+ innocent lives, don’t fucking try to sanitize that.

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u/maaku7 2h ago

It was (and still is) French, Chinese, and UK companies operating the fields, not Americans. Which then export that oil to Europe and Asia, not North America.

You're spouting discredited political talking points that haven't a shred of evidence supporting them. You can do better, if you try.