The Iran-Iraq war caused around a million deaths and a trillion in economic damage in the region. If Iraq went against Saudi Arabia, and started bombing the crude oil transports again, we'd be potentially looking at a Great Depression in the US and globally as it would shut down the massive oil refineries in the US gulf, and associated oil-derivative industries like having massive effects on US shipping.
Personally I don't think my friend should have had to be in a Hummer that got hit by an IED (he's fine, well tinnitus but I got that from a Motorhead concert) because Saddam liked bombing civilians with mustard gas, but given my work is solely dependent on petroleum products I kind of like having a job right now.
Personally I don't think my friend should have had to be in a Hummer that got hit by an IED (he's fine, well tinnitus but I got that from a Motorhead concert) because Saddam liked bombing civilians with mustard gas, but given my work is solely dependent on petroleum products I kind of like having a job right now.