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Neo-cons want to control Middle Eastern oil in order to control China. China is going to need a significant amount of Middle Eastern oil in the future and the neo-cons want to control that oil supply to have some leverage on the Chinese.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, neo-cons turn their attention to China as America's next evil bogey man enemy. 9/11 gave the cons an excuse to invade Iraq and put a permanent U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf. Remember Richard Clarke talking about the Bush administration wanting to invade Iraq before 9/11? Clarke also said that soon as 9/11 happen, Bush & Co. wanted to pin the blame on Iraq even though there was no evidence that Hussein had anything to do with the attacks. Bush & Co. had their eyes on Iraqi oil long before 9/11.
If the U.S. needs to engage in empire building in order to get control of the oil, so be it, in the view of neo-cons.
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