Are the Chinese smarter than we are? [View All]

[Senior citizen]

There's a lot of concern about the Chinese bid to buy Unocal.

Can some brilliant DUers tell me how much oil Iraq had prior to our invasion, and what the highest market price for oil was at that time?

My guess is that it might have been a lot cheaper to simply buy up all their oil, than to go to war for it. Unless, of course, we actually tried and Sadaam refused to sell. In that case I can see why regime change seemed both necessary and urgent to BFEE.