So does America start all these wars just because they want someone's oil and they say no?

Answer 1

When all the mass murder was going on in Bosnia / Serbia in the 1990's and the USA were nowhere to be seen, someone was heard to say on a TV news broadcast - 'I wish that someone would discover oil here, then the USA would never leave us alone and unprotected.'

Says it all.

Answer 2

Iraq wasn't 100% about oil. Yes, Iraq has a lot of oil, but it stopped selling oil in US$ and started selling in €uros instead. It looked at the bigger picture, saw that the US$ is overvalued at about 40% (imagine Asia dropping it's $ bonds). The €uro is a more stable currency, but of course it's more expensive for the US.

What they ignored was that attacking Iraq would destabilise the entire country and virtually stop oil flowing from there. How's your prices right now? Indicative of slightly scarcer oil?

Answer 3

I would say yes, and the reason for them to not buying them off market is because, why buy when he can have it all free after he try to conquer. And the logical answer to why He is not rich with oil is because people around the world had learned his dirty trick, and he knows that if he brings back the oil, people around the world, even Americans will see the real truth of his greed for other people/country's richness. So obviously he has to cover and pretend good, like as if he wasn't there because of the oil but just for the justice... you know He is capable of manipulating people, like he always had. Now he is trapped and everyone knows the truth, so he is saving his face from shame from all the other countries around the world.

Answer 4

No, oils was just part of the equation. The Panama canal was part of the equation for the US attack of Panama too.

The reason for the Iraq war was


By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

"..Jerusalem----April 2.....The American Jewish Congress today congratulated Paul Wolfowitz on his election as the president of the World Bank.

In Israel, The Jerusalem Post had selected Paul Wolfowitz as its Man of the Year for 2002. The Post stated: "On September 15, 2001, at a meeting in Camp David, Wolfowitz advised President George W. Bush to skip Kabul and train American guns on Baghdad. In March 2003, he got his wish. In the process, Wolfowitz became the most influential US deputy defense secretary ever -

"When President Bush says, "America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons" -- that's Wolfowitz talking.

Israel has long waited for an administration that understands that the principal problem in the Middle East is not the unsettled status of our borders. It is the unsettling nature of Arab regimes -- and of the bellicosity, fanaticism, and resentments to which they give rise. Israel has also long waited for an administration that understands..."

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Answer 6

Nobody says 'no' to selling their oil to the US, after all, the US is the biggest consumer of the stuff. It is when the oil producing countries think they're being stiffed on prices (the US wants to exert a measure of control over international prices, plus keep the petrodollar) or if they prefer to do business with third countries (and the US does not like dealing with middle-men who drive up prices further) that the trouble begins.

U.S. oil policy goes back to the 1940s, when it was clear that it was not going to be able to be energy independent. It's a pity that the need for cheap energy has shaped U.S. foreign policy for the last 60+ years, but it's a reality. And it's really difficult to extricate ourselves from perpetuating that policy because our need for imported oil and gas has not diminished.

Also be aware that US industry (certain ones, anyway) have really got us in this mess. In the 1930s to 1950s, the car manufacturers, oil companies and tire companies conspired to do away with public transporation systems and lobbied local, state and federal officials to build roads and let railways fall into disrepair. I think it is a scandal, for example, that there are not fast, long-distance trains from coast to coast, giving people the option to travel in comfort without having to fly.

It is only in the last decade or so that the US government is really thinking smart about energy and proposing alternatives to oil and gas. I know there were mumblings in the '70s, but they didn't take any concrete action other than to urge automobile manufacturers to make smaller, more economical cars. Anyway, I wish the government had been more forward thinking in the 1940s and 50s. God knows we had some of the top brains in the world at that time. Perhaps they were too obsessed with communism to think straight...

The U.S. is not interested in "stealing" anybody's oil. They are interested in buying it - at low prices. Turmoil in the Middle East, which provides up to 15% of the US's crude supplies (and something like 60% of it's lite crude), is not in the U.S.'s interests. The more trouble in the Gulf region, the higher the price of oil because international markets don't like instability. But I don't think it's in the U.S.'s interest to keep sucking up MidEast oil. We have the brains and the resources to come up with viable alternatives. With all the money we have invested in overseeing our "interests" in the Middle East, we could have put solar panels on every home in the United States four times over, and given everybody adult over the age of 16 a top-of-the-line electric car to boot AND we could have rejuvenated Amtrak state-of-the-art bullet trains and given every major American city a modern subway system.

It's got less to do with "saying no" than with supporting the U.S. military/industrial complex which is a child of the 1940s/50s. In other words, it's more about militarism than oil, IMHO.

Answer 7

General Eugene Jareck launched a frontal autopsy of how the will of the people has become an accessory of the Pentagon. Surveying the scorched landscape of half a centurys military misadventures and misguided mission, Jareck asks how and tells why a nation so ostensibly of, and by, and for the people has become a savings and loan of a system whose survival depends upon a state of constant war.

Answer 8

Your mom must have smoked some really cheap cocaine.

The US does not start wars for oil. Have you looked at the gas prices here? They are way up there! If we had gone an pillaged a place for their oil surely we would have so much oil to make fuel from that we wouldn't need to pay so much for it. The media does a really crappy job of giving the public a fair view into the reality of what is going on with our current war. Its unfortunate, why? This is the first war that has been so highly publicized. There were reporters on the front lines for Christ's sake...and people in general, gravitate toward bad news before ever looking for the good. The US took a lot of flack for Vietnam too--and look at us now. Honored Veterans instead of soldiers rejected by an unforgiving society of people who lacked, as you do, knowledge. When this War is over, and the sun sets on the what the future holds...I think the picture painted of the US will be reflected on as a poor opinion of an important cause.

Answer 9

How silly.If America wanted Iraq's oil,we would have taken it by now.Before the war we could have just got it by bribing corrupt U.N. oil for Saddams new palaces,sorry ,meant oil for food officials like some of our European "allies" were doing.

Answer 10

Oil is definitely a factor. Revenge for 9/11 is up towards the top of the list.