me and my sister is having this big argument on this war in iraq...how it started? i said, what war? i have no idea why our people are still in iraq. and she said that the war is based on oil. oil prices went up because we don't we're running out. we need to find other means of fuel to fuel our cars. and this war started because gwb felt that he needed to finish what his father started long ago. am i right or is my sister right?
2007-01-25 18:33:26 · 13 answers · asked by Dodo bird 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
The simple answer is. No it is not based on oil
The longer answer is.
It started because the American people wanted it to. Then they forgot that when people started dieing and blamed it on the president. Yet he did not send us to war he just did not veto the bill when congress voted for us to go. Congress made the bill to go due to an outcry from the American people.
If you don't believe me go back and look up news papers, magazines, and for news clips from shortly before we went to war.
The news polls where any where from 70%-90% saying we should attack. Those are the same people who today say it was wrong and the president was wrong for starting the war.
Most people on here will say it was for oil but they probably also think it was the president not congress that put us there. If that was the case it would be a policing action or military action not a war. War means congress voted and sent us in.
Most of the true cause was bad intelligence and Saddam's unwillingness to comply with every single demand of the UN inspectors that had been in his country for years and found nothing. All the morality stuff and all the other junk came in after we found out our intel was bad.
Basically it comes down to we made a mistake and the US people still had a blood lust that had not calmed down yet after Sept. 11.
ON A SIDE NOTE
I would not watch Fahrenheit 911 until you are an adult and well aware of how people use tricky phases, false logic and emotion to distort things. It is a very charges one sided misleading move that should be analyzed carefully before you believe any ideas from it. Sensationalized sources are never good sources of information.
2007-01-25 18:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by thatoneguy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-01 08:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and No Bush wants oil because we are running low in supply here in the united states attacking iraq would give him control of oil and cheney loves it because he owned an oil refinery called halliburton. We need to start searching for alternatives like green style technologies more hybrids and wind power. Here we are heading toward the future and we still don't have the smartness to acquire these technologies, the rest of the world is ahead of us like china & japan it's pathetic.
2007-01-28 05:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This war was started so that the US could take over oil fields. RECORD profits from the oil companies? No bid contracts? The people who are getting rich is the reason for the Iraq war. Follow the money trail!!!
2007-01-25 18:44:45 · answer #4 · answered by hera 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
USAinvaded iraq because Saddam switched to Euros that's the main reason.Greetings from Argentina
2007-01-26 05:17:30 · answer #5 · answered by raul p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not to sure but when we took over Bagdad the very first thing that was taken, held and gaurded by us was the Oil Ministry.
2007-01-25 18:38:01 · answer #6 · answered by Haven17 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
just watch the 9/11, if the stuff on the film is all about trick n misinform, Michael Moore would have been sued my now.
2007-01-25 19:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are really interested in this subject, you should watch Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 911. It will open your eyes to how greedy & evil the "Bush" regime is.
2007-01-25 18:49:55 · answer #8 · answered by Swamp Zombie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes and for Israel interests.It is the biggest crime in the history!
2007-01-25 22:13:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
like usual, your sister is right.
2007-01-26 17:24:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋