Why do certain people say the WAR ON TERROR is about oil? I haven't see any allies gain any oil HAVE YOU?.

Question

WHEN WE CAN FINALLY PULL OUT OUR TROOPS FROM THE HELL HOLES, I DONT THINK WE ARE COMING OUT WITH LOADS OF OIL. So why do people say it? Pricks have RESPECT for the brave men and women who are risking their lives for you. And have a thought for their families.

I think some of you morons have been reading to many Terrorist Propaganda Magazines.. Lets not forget 9/11 and Madrid, and London and Bali. Theres not enough oil on the planet which will recouperate what this war on terror is going to cost. Its going to go on way past our life time and possibly your grandkids.

**** research!! its as plain as the nose on your face that if we did what some of you are saying we will be NUKED by Iran. Keep your head in the sand its a rosey world out there, they might go away.. HA HA HA HA HA HA I sugest stay off Google to see who can get the best FACTS competition. Because at the end of all these big fancy stats is only one outcome IF WE IGNORE THE TRUTH.

Answer 1

the war on terror has nothing to do with oil it has everything to do with protecting our people from attack muslims have long wanted to turn the world into a islamic world well before sep 11 but it wasnt untill then the world took notice i am a white christian and went to a muslim school al quada its radical veiws were always supported but nobody cared back then i have been to several mosques in mid ninetys as radicals tried to convert me when i didnt convert my life was made hell i moved away when i went to mosque after prayer u would be asked to go to a room were the young were told how they should fight and help there muslim brothers around the world mosque was always about politics not religion i am not some ignorant person i know ive lived it when i see people on telly sticking up for muslims say the war is about oil it angers me i know the truth and we owe bush and blair for having the balls to sort this now things will get worse before they get better but if we did nothing we all in the future will not live to regret it there are 3 million muslims in uk a large enough army to take power u have been warned

Answer 2

It's not the war on terror thats about oil. It's the war in Iraq. Partly. The world powers are all fighting for the oil. The US has a big part of the pie, but China is making deals everywhere to secure their energy future. The believe the US probably really did think Saddam had WMD, so they siezed an opportunity. He already invaded Kuwait once, even crossed 200 km into Saudi, then turned back when they started firing missles at him. US has alot invested in the middle east. They can't let these things be put into jeapordy by some despot, especially one who promotes terrorists. Who ever thinks Venezula(chavez) has more oil than Saudi is a crack head. Venezula is like 8th or 9th on the list of top 10 proven oil reserves, behind, Saudi(1), Canada(2), Iran(3),Kuwait(4),Iraq(5),Nig.eria(6),Russia(7) then Venezula. It doesn't have much to do with the oil companies as much as it has to do with who's government is friendly with who. Most of these countries governments own the oil. Oil companies pay MASSIVE tarrifs to drill there. They build infrastructure, airports, develop the fields, pipelines, central processing facitities, all for only a share in the oil produced, then after a specified amount of time the works this taken back by the National oil company, usually 10 year contract. This BS about US wanting to break Saudi is just that BS. Why would they want to destroy their biggest mid east ally. The Saudi riyal is directly tied to the US dollar and the US economy. So oil is not the main concern, it's a bonus. By the way Saudi Arabia is a Monarchy, not a Dictatorship. The men and women fighting in all the conflicts around the world to make our lives safe from Islamofacists are brave and should thought of as such.

Answer 3

It is an easy quick answer to throw others off asking the tough questions. Yes the 1st world runs on energy. At the moment that is oil, but the supply has already reached the 1/2 way point. As Brazil, Russia, India, China, & Korea [B.R.I.C.K.] population start consuming more The well will dry up at a faster rate than the first 1/2 did.

Even if one country capture all the oil it would have to share it. The 1st worlds products require energy to be consumed. If we don't figure out how to change the economics of renewable energy, we will have the economy of 1850 by 2050.

Answer 4

I'm not sure what Richard J is getting at, but the quotes he provided proves the lies or faulty intelligence that had this nation very confused a few years ago. We now know there were not the kind of WMDs we thought were in Iraq and people originally supporting the war cannot be held responsible after the truth has come out. If that's flip-flopping than so be it. At least they realized their mistakes, something Bush should learn to do.
Learning - to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience.
I don't think we'll ever know if oil was on the minds of our administration while thinking about a preemptive war with Iraq. We do know, however, that the reasons for attacking were untrue and not justified after the matter. I SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BUT I DO NOT SUPPORT THE WAR!!! Support the troops by bringing them home from a war that is unjustified and has no resolution in sight. Do you really think they want to be there knowing what we know now?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/07/iraq.main/index.html

Answer 5

The war on terror isn't about oil. The USA involvement in Iraq is about oil, but it's not to secure the oil fields for oil companies. It's to keep the oil fields away from terrorist control. Control of the oil fields would give terrorist organizations a big source of revenue. Remember these people are nuts and want to take over the world. With the oil revenues, they could amass weapons and secret cells everywhere.

Answer 6

This is my answer to a similar question of about 3 months ago:

Its about empires and buried treasure:

On the one side of Iraq there is Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia (the only vaguely US-sympathetic Middle East oil State) is looking ever more likely to fall to the fundamentalists. It has the most oil, but it has a distinctly shady Government and a powerful extremist faction awaiting its opportunity. When Sunni Saudi goes down it becomes part of the Iranian Shia Empire.

On another side of Iraq is Iran. Iran has been on the up for ages. Its got plans to run all the oil in the Middle East (it has the third largest supplies). Its wealthy, organised and populated with a sophisticated and intelligent people, easily capable of outsmarting the West.

Iraq has the second largest stocks of oil and it was the only State available to be invaded (and capable of generating enough pitifuly weak excuses to make blatant imperialistic invasion acceptable to the gullible US public).

To the North of Iraq there is Syria (no oil, but lots of influence). Syria will support Iran. In the north there is also Jordan. Jordan will fall easily to the fundamentalists all around it. It is weak militarily and economically.

If the battle for Iraq is lost, Iraq goes to Iran.

With an Iran-led fundamentalist empire of this size, the West will be paying whatever Ahmadinejad demands for all the oil east of Washington.

So what to do? America made up stories about WMD, 911 etc and really got rightous about what a nasty man Saddam was, so they could get in there and make Iraq an American colony and thus sustain the supplies of the black stuff. Getting control of Iraq also has the advantage of providing a bulwark between Saudi and Iran (just in case the US can somehow keep Saudi onside).

So, its about oil.

So, its about a huge Iran-led Islamic Empire easily able to switch all its trade towards the new economic giants - China and India, both of whom are desperate for oil.

This is a battle for resources that could have been won easily. Sadly, Bush, his nutcase cronies and the mad, aggressive tactics of the US army have all conspired to ensure that the war is already lost.

Better invest in a windmill company!

Answer 7

It appears that the reason for attacking Iraq, a country with the world's second largest oil reserves, was not to obtain Iraq oil, but to keep it off the market. As a result the price of oil has risen since 9/11 from $25 per barrel to $75 per barrel.
If you are selling oil, that's one heck of an increase in profit.
Don't mistake controlling oil with owning oil

Answer 8

It has more to do with incompetence than intention. Unless the intention was to create a Civil War.

If the Iraq conquest had gone the way of the fairy tale of flowers and dancing in the streets, (which it obviously was never going to be) then a lot more oil would have flowed. If the Iraqis had been put to work drilling, extracting and refining the oil, instead of being shot at protests and being arrested and detained without charge or trial, we would have had more oil and at less cost. But the fact that local, capable Iraqis were prevented from returning to work, and they saw their old jobs being done, often badly, by invaders at 10 - 100 times the sallaries. then people got pissed off. I mean, how would you feel if the Chinese invaded the USA in order to liberate the people from Bush's regime, and they put you out of work, and paid a Chinese invader 100 time what your where on to do the job?

Much of the insugency would not have happened if the locals had been employed in the reconstruction and development of their nation. It would have cost the tax payer MUCH less and saved a lot of American Blood. A lot of American sons and daughters would be at home today, not in graves.

I have HUGE respect for the troops, but they have been wrongly used and abused, sent on the cheap, with insufficient arms and protection into an un-necessary war based on blatant lies about WMD and links to al-queda.

BTW, Please answer this next question, because not a single supporter of the war, who also denies it's about oil has been able to as yet. who knows you may be the first, but here goes:

When the evil regime of Saddam Hussien Fell, why was it that the US forces ONLY protected the interior and the OIL ministries? Not any other ministries, Not the Hospitals, clinics or schools as they were legaly obligated and mandated to do? Not the museums that stored unique artifacts dating from the very dawn of civilisation, and not any other part of the critical infratstructure like power plants and water treatment plants?

Answer that and tell me it's not about oil. How come as the troops headed North into Iraq they had to take over and defend oil wells, but not schools or hospitals or power stations or water treatment works? these where actually attacked and bombed by the US, but not oilfields or the oil Ministry? yet this war had nothing to do with oil?

Why is it that Dick Cheney's big secret energy review of 2001 amounted to little more than maps of the Iraqi oil fields? A plan that had to be dragged out of him by repeated threats of impeachment and imprisonment for withholding evidence and contempt of court?

The invasion wasn't only about oil, and it was never about cheap oil, but oil was clearly a big part of the reason for the invasion.

You talk of research, it looks like you do not know the meaning of the word. research means follow the evidence and come to an independent conculsion based solely on that evidence. you read a lot of BS propoganda and then base your opinions on that.

Speenth (above) is VERY close to the truth. Iraq is about a longer geo-political struggle to contain China and Russia and allow the Rothschilds controlled global banking dynasty (the ones that actually OWN all the credit in the western world) to create a single global geopolitical and spiritual entity. Bush is Blowing it BIG TIME!

Bush is a class A1 idiot, and I say this as a solid, Pro War conservative. the neo-cons have stolen the conservative ideals and have created a cind of corporate welfare program that is obscene. they hate competition and small Government, they have created the greatest monolithic fascist government in history. they want theur corporate buddies to destroy small and medium sized business, the want them to destroy enterprise and self reliance. Todays republican party is NOT conservative, it is FASCIST!

Answer 9

The war on terror has nothing to do with the control of oil ,its about the control of the mindset and actions of the worlds moslems .Bin laden realised years ago that to remain a good Saudi muslim would not give him the poer and prestige he sought,Khomeini was the same ,Saddam had power and screwed it up by attacking Kuwait and assuming America was weak.From Indonesia to the Atlantic there muslims involved in terror not all these countries haveoil ,what they have are muslims with a mindset that can be manipulated by your religious fanatics and their pedlars of death.

Answer 10

"All about oil" was another conspiracy lie used as a propaganda tool by the terrorists. The anti-war people joined in to help the terrorists. Some ignorant dupes actually believe it.
The USA will not get a drop of oil.

Answer 11

"I haven't see any allies gain any oil HAVE YOU?."

well, you dint keep up with current events much do you......you wont hear about it, if you only ever watch soaps on TV or read porno mags.

from 1998 America wanted a new oil pipeline laid across Afghanistan. they also wanted a new regime in place to protect the supply.
the attacks on Afghanistan were (allegedly) planned well before the 9/11 attacks
The pipeline was laid in may 2002

I DO support our troops (UK), I have family serving in the forces.
I hate politicians, they are two faced slime balls, with little regard for the people who actually have to make sacrifices for the idiotic decisions they make.
I also hate stupid people who make stupid statements without knowing any facts.

the above FACT is not in contention by anyone.
Therefore your original statement that you haven't seen anyone gain any oil is refuted (well, you may not have SEEN it, but that just means you haven't been looking).
Before you start calling people morons and talking about propaganda, you might ask yourself, what else has passed you by?