# "No Blood for Oil" reducing credibility?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-blood-for-oil-reducing-credibility/154436>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 11, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-blood-for-oil-reducing-credibility/154436 "2003-02-11T21:57:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-blood-for-oil-reducing-credibility/154436/21 "2003-02-13T12:31:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by TitoBenito \*  
> Although I pretty much much disagree with a W’s war on Iraq, I don’t have have a strong desire to join the anti-war crowd because of all their over-simplified and misleading claims.

The point of slogans is not to make a incisive analysis of the situation, it is to emphasis the main points of the side staging the demonstration. Besides, I don’t see how this “blood for oil” argument is anyway more simplistic than W’s “weapons of mass destruction” excuse.

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**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-blood-for-oil-reducing-credibility/154436/22 "2003-02-13T12:32:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by bordelond \*  
> I would trade my life (aka “blood”) so that citizens of the U.S. can maintain their aggregate standard of living (based on “oil”).
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> The way you phrased the question, it seemed like you were asking me to trade my life so that ONE INDIVIDUAL would have oil.

But have you put your money where your mouth is?

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