How many innocent civilians, many of them children and babies, have suffered and died to secure oil reserves?

Question

IN the middle East?

Since we all should know by now that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and therefore, nothing to do with "terrorism", How can we justify
150,000 civilians dead since this war started?

And why is Bush so cozy with the Saudi's?--
Since it is from Saudi Arabia that most of the terrorists come from the hijackers, Osama himself?
Why do all the other Middle Eastern nations who have public beheadings and stone their women get a free ride?

Answer 1

None. We could have just bought the oil for less than the war. Drop the sanctions/buy the oil. This "War for Oil" thing is ridiculous. There'd be no war in the Middle East if Arab Islam Fanatics had not driven planes into our buildings. We would just have continued to buy it. For less money.

PS: Don't use the Galloway quote above. After all, he was gaining from the Oil for Food program and covering his own butt.

Answer 2

Many many many...but that has been true throughout history, the country with the power goes to the other countries to take their resources.

As for the guy who posted all the dems supporting Iraq invasion, get a life; all of them have said that knowing then what we know now, their votes would have been different.

Bushco however still is saying that in spite of it all, the invasion was the right thing to do.

It was not the right thing to do; invading for the purpose of controlling another country's resources is never the right thing to do; and our children and grandchildren will be paying the price for a long long time.

Answer 3

1. Saddam openly gave money to suicide bombers attacking Israel, several Americans have died from that so you are an idiot right off the bat. Also the mastermind of the Achille Laural hijack and killing of Americans was given sanctuary in Baghdad. Your ignorance is astounding.

2. Screw those kids and if I had my way, we would have dropped troops in the Kurd areas and then killed every stinking Iraqi and took the oil.

3. Next time post seperate ques, for the different topics you pick. Stop being a bonehead.

Answer 4

That is a good question. But another is: How many would suffer and die without oil in America? Granted, I think we must totally get off of oil in a timely fashion - sooner rather than later; but if it were gone tomorrow, we'd all be in a heap of trouble.

Answer 5

Too many. Bush is "cozy" with the Saudis because he is in business with them.

Answer 6

they are all terrorists and need to die .Preemptive strike on future terrorists is all the death of a baby is .Get it in your head that all Muslims are terrorists and it will not be so hard to accept the deaths of the children .
Now what we should of done to save them was remove them from the enviroment they lived in like we do when we find crackhead mothers with babies and children .

Answer 7

miss, WE AREN'T KILLING THEM!!!! This war IS about terrorists. Saddam was a terrorist. He killed just as many innocent people as you say we did. But we aren't killing them. If we were their or not, their would still be death. Iraq wasn't exactly a nice little country people think it was before the war.

Answer 8

Man,

http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html

http://www.husseinandterror.com/

Why will I get bad ratings for this? Because it is the truth people!

Answer 9

Untold thousands of innocent lives have been lost thanks to the Iraq War.

Not to mention 2600 brave Americans.

Answer 10

Galloway vs. The US Senate: Transcript of Statement
"Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that time. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.

“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.

"Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Halliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer.

"Have a look at the oil that you didn't even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where? Have a look at the $800 million you gave to American military commanders to hand out around the country without even counting it or weighing it.

"Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance of your own Government."