i don't understand how people keep saying that the war is for oil.prove it?

Question

george bush has more money than he knows what to do with and more oil than he could use therefor iraq oil is of really no concern to him.do you actually think he would go to war to keep your gas at one dollar a gallon,i mean get a life and be for real

Answer 1

I'm curious too.... As the answers so far are pretty lame.

Answer 2

One way to prove it would be to compare the situation in pre-war Iraq with other countries without oil and see what the US has done (or not done) there. If there was no oil in Iraq, there would have been no interest in that country.
Look at Tibet, for instance. The Chinese are destroying Budhist temples. They have instituted a program of ethnic cleansing, forcing Tibetans to only marry Chinese to dillute the gene pool. Monks are arrested, tortured and killed. The leader of that country, the Dali Lama is in exile. But, since there are no resources there we need, we don't get involved. In fact, China is made a "Favored Nation".
There are dictators who are terrible in many parts of the world. Do we get involved in dealing with each of them?

Bush may not need money, as you say, but he certainly WANTS money, and oil is in his blood. He owns substantial stock in BP, Exxon/Mobil and Pennzoil. That's no big secret. He certainly didn't go to war to keep our gas prices low. He makes far more money when they go higher!

Answer 3

Lets have a reality check here

Let's say that i ask an expert "what makes a country rich and/or powerful?." the response i might get would be:

"A countries wealth and power are determined by its resouces, which in turn effect it's economy, which in turn determines the countries ability to grow, in areas such as population, military etc..."

think about it. the most abundant and most sought after resource in the middle east is, you guessed it, OIL.

our countries (usa, canada, plus pretty much all of the british commonwealth) have been at odds, and sometimes at war with the arab countries for as long as history can remember.

obviously, oil hasn't always been as valuable in history as it has been in the past century. this being the case, many of the middle eastern countries (namely saudi arabia, iraq etc...) have become fat off of this resource and have now become a potential threat again to us (possibly an imaginary threat, i wouldn't know) and to prevent another caucasian-arab bloodgulch, the U.S. decided to take away that resource. its not a great strategy, but what other choice do we really have?

thats just off the top of my head, anyone have a better theory, feel free to rip mine apart :)

Answer 4

You need to get the picture. The "war" in Iraq is not a war. It's interfering in a domestic dispute. Terrorism is about oil. Al Queda is threatening to harm us, not because they hate us, but because we prop up regimes in the middle east that they do not like and that sell oil to the west at what they consider dirt cheap prices. They want to topple those regimes and charge what they want for the oil. So, oil is involved but not anywhere near the way your statement implies.

Answer 5

Let's see here it is a huge country with some of the largest and most prolific oil reserves in the world. You are correct G. Bush is in the oil business why on earth would he want us to have any control over such a large amount of oil? Gee .... now that I think about it maybe he might make ..ta da...money off it.

Answer 6

then why do you think he started the war? from where i sit it looked like some terrorrists smashed the world trade centre and the iraqi people took the blame. naturally we are looking for reasons which seem to make sense. and as for your statement about george bush and money... whos money has he got? and if he doesnt know what to do with it why doesnt he take a look at the state of his school and healthcare and welfare systems. control of oil resources = power; oil is a main driver of the world economy. arent americans supremacists after all? (excuse me- its a genaralisation but i believe has some validity)

Answer 7

It's not about the now, it's about the future. In 50 years, there will be little to no oil left to mine within the planet.

The oil we have here in the states is extremely polluted, and requires additives and filtering to be properly sold. This makes it virtually impossible to export. The oil at Basra and in Iraq however, is extremely high quality.

The Bush administration believes whoever controls the oil in the future will control the world. And it isn't just about who controls the oil. The military and government contracts going out to Halliburton and Bush/Cheney's friends for work in Iraq is in the BILLIONS. It's not about keeping our gas cheap, it's about filling the pockets of his fellow upper-class warmongers.

Answer 8

... well first off... just because someone has more money than they know what to do with.. .it doesn't mean they don't want more... greed is in full affect in America...

but, I guess the real issue here is... what is the war about? where there is an absence of reasons, people will make up their own...

Answer 9

You need to pay more attention when watching the news. There's not an easier or nicer way to answer this.

Answer 10

How little you know.
How much oil has he got?
You dont know
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