AFAIK, America wants to stockpile all remaining oil sources in this world before they reach the peak. After the production of Middle east decline, america would stay as hegemonic since it reserved its oil long before middle east lost theirs.

Jerrica, looking over your posts in this thread and others in Political, it's apparent that everything you say is either willfully ignorant or is designed to provoke a negative reaction (i.e., trolling). This behavior isn't condusive to worthwhile debate.

No, but it is good for laughs.

At the sametime, Jerrica is presenting an argument with support (however infirm the support may be). We all present arguments twisted to reaffirm our own values and beliefs. The hope is that through debate we will be challenged, reassess our assertions and come to a logical conclusion or atleast objective view of a particular incident or situation. i.e. usage of the hegelian dialect.

Of course, it does become counterproductive when they keep presenting the same arguments without considering evidence presented which challenges either the premises or the conclusion.

Well, anyway, back on topic, I don't really know how confirmed people are that there will be a new onslaught on terror in Iraq. However, you can be sure terrorists groups are definitely dying to show the world that they can still move on without al-Zarqawi and that things are just going to return to normal. It's probalby going to be some horrific genocide display to tell the world that they're still moving on strong.

No doubt it's definitely a blow to Al-Qaeda, but I think it's only creating a temporary aversion to the bigger problem. I just hope insurgency is curbed ASAP. No more troops staying in Iraq adding onto the madness there is already of them staying there.

Afghanistan attacked North America?

The price of crude is going up for reasons that have nothing to do with Iraq. It wouldn't be unreasonable to say that there we have a supply problem when it comes to oil production, in the sense that regimes of questionable integrity seem to have a lot of influence on the price of crude. In that respect, Washington policymakers may have had the intention of transforming Iraq, which has something like the second largest proven oil reserves in the world, into a model for "oil integrity", complete with an accountable government that respects the rule of law, both in the international and domestic spheres. This, theoretically, should result in higher, but, more importantly secure, oil output in Iraq, thus increasing the amount of oil reaching world markets, pushing the price of crude downwards.