who is telling Americans this stuff?

Question

who is telling Americans that our oil comes from Iraq? there are no tankers moving from Iraq to the US, oil has never come from iraq it is less expensive to bring from south america or drill it in our own country. why would someone even think that oil comes from iraq. also when did wmd only mean nuclear arms. ANY weapon that causes hundreds of casualties is a wmd. that means chemical weapons are wmd. iraq had large numbers of those. if you are going to not agree the situation at least not agree for the right reasons, like being tired of global government builder. if you are going to answer dont say i wasnt there, i was for two years. and dont try to bring up the junk in africa because i was there also. we got plenty of problems here in the US why bother with trying to fix every problem on the planet.

Answer 1

Jennjn1331 I completely agree with what this person said-and with you. I don't know what has happened to the minds of the people in this country but I am so disgusted with these loud mouth Liberals I could spit.

Answer 2

First off, I have said several times before that invading for oil is a silly conspiracy theory, go ahead and look through my answers and you will see. You just have to look at what our government is doing with Lybia right now. By SAYING he is giving up WMD program (whether successful or otherwise), Lybia is now off the sanctions list and will reap a windfall profit, even though he may continue to fund terror and torture both his own people and foreign nationals whom he has kidnapped, even though Khadaffi had murdered American servicemen when he was not at war with the US. If the President can get that done, he could certainly have gotten the same treatment for Saddam who had not murdered Americans before the invasion of Kuwait (the missile attack against the American ship during the Iran-Iraq War has been accepted as an accident, not intentional).

Now, the availability of Iraq's oil does have an effect on the price you and I pay at the pump, because the price per barrel determined by traders in the futures market is based in part on the total amount of petroleum available and that which is presumed to become available. Because oil from Iraq can go to Europe, that could mean that oil pumped in Russia or in Mexico will then become available to go to America or to China, and that affects how the price moves.

As for the WMD, I have always been willing to give the President a lot of leeway here, since as you point out there is a lot of area that can be covered. With even the most rudimentary chemical and pharmaceutical industry, any nation can become a hazard with WMD's, and even if it takes them five years that is still a 'present danger.'

Answer 3

Well I am going to assume you have worked for the government in some capacity or at least a large corporation that has allowed you to live all over the world.. in that case you know how gullible most Americans are when it comes to there government...come on hey! You are an American or at least have lived here since you call it "our" country.....don't blame the masses they only hear things like that from the media which is all they have... How could most Americans know that there are no tankers coming from Iraq unless they had so much time to sit on the coastline and watch all the tankers come in? As for WMDs I believe America is afraid because we have more than anyone else already and they certainly don't want that to come out....

Answer 4

It doesn't matter if we don't get oil directly from Iraq, it matters that we get oil from the Middle East (which has unstable governments fueled by terrorism). Our demand for oil requires us to buy from these regions because other regions of the world (including our own country) cannot fulfill our demand. The fact that we have put ourselves in a place where we have to rely on such areas of the world to maintain our economy and way of life is what should scare people. It is also why we are so concerned with the level of stability in the region (WMDs, Dictators, Terrorism, etc.).
In regards to "why should we fix other people's problems". From an economic standpoint, the healthier, more productive, and stable we can make a country, the more stuff they can buy from us...the more stuff they buy from us the more control we can have over the region - this amounts to global leverage (ironically, the same kind of leverage the middle east has on us.)

Answer 5

If the wmd are only chemical weapons, then why would we single out Iraq?

The Iraqis started using these weapons when we put troops over there.

Iraq doesn't have oil? What about the Hussiens oil spill and Kuwait's oil fires in the 1990s?

Iraq's economy is dominated by the oil sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings. In the 1980s financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments. Iraq suffered economic losses from the war of at least US$100 billion. After hostilities ended in 1988, oil exports gradually increased with the construction of new pipelines and restoration of damaged facilities. A combination of low oil prices, repayment of war debts (estimated at around US$3 billion a year) and the costs of reconstruction resulted in a serious financial crisis which was the main short term motivation for the invasion of Kuwait.

On November 20, 2004, the Paris Club of creditor nations agreed to write off 80% ($33 billion) of Iraq's $42 billion debt to Club members. Iraq's total external debt was around $120 billion at the time of the 2003 invasion, and had grown by $5 billion by 2004. The debt relief will be implemented in three stages: two of 30% each and one of 20%.[8]

After the period of economic sanctions many of Iraq's state-owned enterprises were next to collapse. In 2003 the US led Coalition Provisional Authority drew up a framework for largescale privatization and opened up state-owned services to foreign investors. As of 2005, 64% of Iraq's oil reserves are being developed by multinational corporations, based on contracts with the Oil Ministry known as Production Sharing Contracts.[3] The insurgency campaign over recent years has hugely dampened US and British efforts to bring in such foreign investment and frequent attacks on the oil infrastructure have also had a major economic impact.

Answer 6

Who is telling YOU this stuff?

A. About ten percent of our oil comes from the middle east. Prior to the sanctions placed on iraq, iraq was one of our major suppliers in that region. It is currently ranked as our 6th largest supplier.
B. It is not cost prohibitive to import oil from the middle east, we have been doing it for about 75 years from countries like saudi arabia. That country and Nigeria, (both very far away), are currently among our top 5 suppliers. You are correct though, that countries like Canada (our number one supplier) and Venezuela supply a much larger percentage of our oil.

So, your statement is factually innnacurate and not very well researched, for all its sarcasm and sanctimony.

If you don't believe me, feel free to check out this link from the Energy Information Administration:(government agency)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

Next point...

A. The "WMD" that were uncovered in iraq were relatively small amounts of mustard gas and sarin nerve gas, most of which was old, (WWII era for the mustard gas) and was actually supplied by the US during the Iran Iraq war, back when Saddam was our ally. (Yes, our ally, even while he was shelling residential neighborhoods in Iran) Thanks to good old Ronny Reagan!

B. Furthermore, these stockpiles were almost all documented by the UN inspection teams after the first gulf war. We knew they were there. These were not the stockpiles that the administration refered to.

C. Even President bush acknowledges that the WMD intelligence in the lead-up to the iraq war was fatally flawed. Only Sean Hannity and you are still clinging to this story.

If you are going to insult the intelligence of the american people, or "liberals," its best to make sure that you are not patently wrong on the issues you are addressing.

There are many, many reasons to disagreee with the Iraq war, and many reasons to agree with it. There is a case to be made that regime change alone was enough to go into Iraq. Unfortunately, that was not the reason were were given. We were told about mushroom clouds, and biological weapons labs and meetings with Osama.

These charges were innaccurate at best, and downright lies at worst.

I believe that President Bush is a good man. A good man, with his heart in the right place, who was also tragically wrong. Nearly three thousand dead young americans, and thousands more dead iraqis had to pay for these mistakes.

Answer 7

Our oil doesn't come from Iraq. The UN place sanctions against Iraq under Hussein's rule and it would have been illegal for the US to buy oil from Iraq.

However, since you're so knowledgeable about oil exportation, answer me this-why is the price of oil going up with mere mention of Iran using the oil card in the fight for nuclear independence? Makes you think. Granted, MOST of our oil does come from South America, BUT Chavez is looking for a new market-China. So if we lose our main source of oil, don't we need to, ahem, look into a new source?

lirinsdada-May God bless you and keep you safe.

Answer 8

Rumsfeld told Meet The Press's Tim Russert in March of 2003 that Iraq had nukes and that he knew where they were located. Don't believe me, write The Daily Show which showed the clip, right after showing a more recent clip from 2006 in which this liar denied having said Iraq had nukes.

Answer 9

After spending 3 deployments in Iraq I wonder the same questions. Assumptions are facts these days. media says only what sells. we are doing wonders in Iraq and they love us over there. its the TCN that we have problems with. People from there arabic nations coming over attacking. its just fustrating. americans support our troops not the war.. Okay that makes no sense... we support you just not what you do. It just two faced... that way they look good by saying they support american troops. but they also what to say they dont support the war because americans die... dammit its a war!! 2000 deaths in 3 years is nothing look at wwI wwII and any other war.... hippies!!!!

by the way i am going back to iraq very soon.... 4th time!! beside missing my wife and little girl, i am proud to go!!

by the way!! MEOW!!! oil spill and fires in kuwati were in kuwati!! saddam just started them!

Answer 10

It sells better to make up a bunch of **** and see how far it goes. In todays world the media takes side and makes its own agenda. The lofty non partisan, unbiased just get the facts out stuff is history. The press is no longer a guardian of democracy but a tool used to manipulate it.