How many truly believe this?

Question

How many truly believe that our occupation of Iraq does NOT have anything to do with strategic influence and control of oil supplies in that region and profitablility of, primarily, U.S. oil companies?

Think about it, THE most profitable time for U.S. oil companies has been since the occupation of Iraq. Does the current administration really care about the "freedom" of the Iraqie people or would they be just as happy if Iraq was a dictatorship, as long as it was friendly to the U.S. (aka Iran under the Shah) and allowed us access to thier oil resources?

Nonalcoholic2, yes it is. My point precisely....but they never admit to it.

Ricky T - do you really believe they don't have any interest in the oil companies?

Curt - you never answered the question. I would love for everyone to be free, my question was whether you believe that was the real reason we're there.

Follow up: What influence does China and India sucking up any drop of oil they can have to do with our desperation to secure oil supplies?

Daniel - what WMD we did find (very old artillary shells found buried in the desert) were from the Iran-Iraq war and weren't strong enough to give you a carpet burn!

Daniel (Part 2) - just because the oil isn't flowing (due to the incompetence of this administration and its post war awareness/planning) doesn't mean that wasn't part of the reason for going into Iraq. Your answer doesn't make any sense.

Answer 1

Many have been saying that since the Bushwacker started the war. It makes a lot more sense the the reasons he gave us.

Answer 2

It's impossible to think of the Middle East without thinking about oil, but to say it's all about oil is at least as extreme. Iran under the Shah was as much about a check on the Soviets as it was oil, and a stable Iraqi government would be as much about a military and political stabilization (and some greater degree of safety for Israel, for instance) as anything. If it were all about oil it would be easier to invade Alaska and California, which have huge untapped oil reserves off-shore. (Maybe not a bad idea!)

Answer 3

No the current administration does not care about the "freedom" of the Iraqis.
Women had more rights under Saddam Hussein than almost any other middle eastern country.You can look this up for yourself to see that it is a fact. As long as you were a Saddam supporter life was good for you.

This war is all about oil and maintaining the US place as a global force. Had they been honest about the reasons, I would have supported this war from the get go.

Answer 4

If anyone actually thinks that anyone in the Bush admiistrationcares about the Iraqi people they need their head examined.

This war is about revenge and domination of an oil rich region by an oil addicted nation

The USA is a dangerous addicted nation....that will destroy anything or anyone to keep it's oil.

All the political rot about Democracy and freedom is ridiculous...but amazingly.....americans believe it.

Saudi Arabi and Kuwait are monarchies...shall we invade and free them as well.

The USA will get in bed with any nation, any dictator , anytime..examples are Stalin, Saddam Hussain, Somoza,Batista, etc.

Bush was elected twice..that tells you a lot about americans

Answer 5

In a sense you are correct. If we don't have stabilized governments in the middle east then your computer gets shut off. Yes oil is important to even liberals. The freedom of the Iraq people is important in the stabilization of the region. If we just wanted the oil we would have had it 3 years ago, that would have been easy. Saddam going after Kuwait, showed he wanted to expand his control of oil. Iran is using the fall of Saddam to gain control of the oil and put his radical Islamic regime in place there. This puts Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordon, Egypt, Israel and the rest at risk, and the world under the thumb of Iran. This is not an option.

Answer 6

it has alot to do with oil but not for US oil companies to profit. the oil company profits are in retrospect to the profits of any business. actually percentage wise most other big businesses have made higher profit jumps than oil companies over the last 8 years. we do have interests in middle east oil and the effort of the radical groups such as Iran and Saudi Arabia to slowly cut us out of the oil market is the reason we need western friendly govts in the middle east. If we are cut out it would destroy our economy. We are looked upon to control the worlds rogue states and to do that we have to have connections in the middle east. Its cynical but a fact.

and steph they cant be honest about it they have to sugar coat our goals to ease apprehension from other middle eastern states as well as the extremely liberal european countries

Answer 7

Uh, the ones of us that aren't uneducated?... How much oil have we taken since the war? None. Did we find several very dangerous WMD's? Yes. And don't say we didn't because CNN says so.

Answer 8

U.S. invasion of Iraq was only to take control of the oil! look at the second the U.S. government acknowledged the the Iraqis have oil the started planing and lying,Bush the big *** hole and his members
blow up Iraqi homes and took their oil saying "they are trying to destroy terror" which is bull **** coming out of their *** which they call mouth!

Answer 9

I think manipulating the voters is considered a job skill requirement in Washington D.C., so that doesn't sound incredible to me. However, I don't really believe it was all about oil. I think some who wanted the oil may have been happy to support it for their own reasons, though.

Answer 10

I believe the Iraq issue is not about freedom. The issue in Iraq has been exisiting for hundreds of years.