If so many of you out there insist we invaded Iraq for oil, why did Bush chose the 16th largest oil producer in the world? There are 14 better ones (excluding ourselves. yes, we produce more oil at home than Iraq ever did) out there that could have been overthrown far more easily.
Furthermore, what are you going to say when Bush retires and doesn't go home to Crawford to swim in an oil-filled pool?
Just once I'd like to see real evidence come with the claim,
"We did it for oil."
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2173rank.html
2006-06-14 12:02:14 · 7 answers · asked by obviously_you'renotagolfer 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Also, if we did it for the oil, how do you explain this? Counterintuitive, no?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,777784,00.html
2006-06-14 12:06:02 · update #1
i hear you...i am for the freedom of iraq and afghanistan..and every other islamic country..i hope they fall like dominoes soon..
one thing i thought was going to help pay for the military being in iraq was oil when it got up and running..im sure i heard something about that was going to be one of the ways iraq could pay us back for getting saddam...
they ought to sell us oil at cost until we are paid back some of the cost of the military being there i think..
peace through power..
freedom isnt free...someone paid for your right to say what you want...
2006-06-14 12:14:12 · answer #1 · answered by badjanssen 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
45 years later, we still don't know for sure why we were in Vietnam. The word back then was to keep communism from spreading.
I do know this, Our oil reserves are running low and our country uses a whole lot of it. Those countries that have the biggest reserves under their feet are not our best Friends. What to do? What to do?
Personally, I wish we would have chosen to wean ourselves off of foreign oil. That would have cut the money that helps fuel terrorist activity. As an added benefit we would have taken a step toward slowing down global warming.
What ever the reason we went into Iraq, it must have been a real good one to match the sacrifice. Maybe one day we will all know what it was for sure.
2006-06-14 12:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by Joe_Pardy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
george w. bush hasn't really done anything to impress the united states. good old fathead has been sitting in his office and doing nothing. some countries wouldn't hate us so much if he had never gone to war with iraq. that war was the biggest mistake that bush has ever made!!!(out of the MANY) i think that he is the worst president because he doesn't care about this country and he is suffering from hardening of the hearteries. every1 in this country has to b exactly the same in his mind.......no one can b gay, bisexual, or lesbian, they all have 2 shove their true selves down and PRETEND to b straight.
below bushe's soft head and jacket, lies A HEART OF FLINT dedicated 2 america.
2006-06-14 13:05:49 · answer #3 · answered by Tess Tranquillity™ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... the question is... why are we there?
It doesn't seem like it's oil... it doesn't seem like it's WMD... it doesn't seem like it's even to free the people (much like your argument, there are many dictators out there that are much larger threats and kill many more people, like N. Korea for example)... and the terror links are laughable...
Oil seems to have the same shaky links as all the other "reasons" that both sides give...
2006-06-14 12:19:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
BTW, we haven't taken (no will we) take a single drop of oil from Iraq.
The war for oil-ers are crack pots who are painfully unaware of facts and acting on emotion.
2006-06-14 12:07:28 · answer #5 · answered by answer annie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello, anybody want to answer this question?....... anybody?
2006-06-14 12:17:51 · answer #6 · answered by shshht 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DUH!!! Your question does not compute.
2006-06-14 12:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋