Much as I'm irritated by the PC brigade, fox, we can hardly blame them because some nut-job murders a stranger whether it was because of how she's dressed or because a hatstand told him to.
Parabellum, read nutlooses link. The petrodollar doesn't depend on physical control of a given bit of oil, rather the currency in which it's traded worldwide. Whether or not that was the cause of the war, though is another argument.
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