Why do people believe oil is more valuable to GWB than a free and liberated Muslim Middle East?

Question

A free Middle East ensures peace and security throughout the world. A free market and inevitable globalization makes peace a commodity that far out wieghs any profits that can be made from oil.
Oil will be a dwarf in all of the other prospects of a free marketplace throughout the world. Most importantly extremist such as Al-Quaeda, Ham mas, and Hezbholah will lose their economic base and there way of life (remember the Taliban?) will be an impossibility anywhere in the world.

Last time I asked only 2 people responded and they supported this idea. I guess the Libs can't argue about this theory.

CC freeing the Iraqi people was a MAJOR part of the plan. Have another sip of your Kool-Aide

Bertacus---- That will come in time.

Thank you Garrett well put. A friendly Iraq is worth an enormous sacrifice in the long run. Nobody can deny that.

Answer man it cost the Saudi's $2 to produce a barrel of oil and the Iranians $20 to produce the same barrel. The higher the price per barrel the more motivation for alternative fuel. Something the none of the Middle Eastern countries want.
Iran is going bankrupt as a result of their pursuit of nuclear technology because they can't turn a good profit with the current price.

Do you prefer making Iran the leader in the Middle East and therefore OPEC?

Answer 1

Of course they won't argue (rationally, at least), because it cuts the foundation away from their (non) argument vis a vis 'oil, Haliburton,Enron' and whatever nonsensical non-sequiters they can pepper the debate with...
Ask yourself this:
What -EXACTLY- is the reason liberals give for Bush 'wanting to go to war?,'?
What would possibly be the advantage to him?
Of course, there is absolutely no reason...just a mish-mash of inuendo,supposition and hyperbole lacking any cohesive rationale.
A friendly Iraq is invaluable to the US.
That somehow seems to always be overlooked by those that assign nefarious motives to this president.

Answer 2

To be a fair, a free and liberated Iraq means that the oil will flow in a free market. An Iraq under the wrong control and drive the oil prices up, just as Saddam had threatened to do upward of $300 a barrel. That would be disastrous to not only the US economy, but the world economy. So if you look at this in a negative tunnel visioned way, it is about oil. The threat to neighboring counties, i.e. Kuwait, the murder of hundreds of thousands of people, torture, brutality, starvation, and annihilation are secondary to those that put the oil issue first.

Answer 3

Save the McDonald's Theory for your fellow suckers. When we invaded Iraq, did we send enough support to protect the people or the oil fields? Yeh. That's because the fields were our priority; not forging some undying alliance in the ME. If an alliance were our priority then we would have made some effort to actually protect some of mankind's greatest artifacts and Iraq's national pride by protecting at least SOME of their museums. As it was, we protected NONE so the looters got just about everything thanks to US meddling and ineptitude.

The whole reason nobody answered your ridiculous question was likely because they can't believe that someone can still so arrogantly defend what has been proven false time and again over the past six years. Why waste their time?

Answer 4

Oil profits or rather the cost of oil has trebled since the president made the decision to go to war with the Iraqi people. Why do you suppose this is, my theory is that while the mid east was troubled it is now out of control, it has made it a more dangerous world with more and more Arabs becoming terrorist, the war was not a good thing but was really the worst decision that the president has made. He has made many bad decisions but the lives of hundreds of thousands lost is the worst. He himself will go down in history as the worst president this country has ever seen.

Answer 5

keep in mind the Taliban? you're making it sound like that's extinct. yet extra importantly: do you realize of your question? "....a unfastened and Liberated Muslim center East?" Wow, ok Osama. wager I had you Republicans all incorrect.... that's good. You ask a question which you your self have already asked and replied all by making use of your self. and you're saying Carla is preserving her blinders on??? What a tragic shaggy dog tale. And by making use of the way, i might incorporate on your question/answer that we gave each thing to the Taliban, weapons, coaching, you call it. i'm carried out with you Randy CIA. I won't waste my time with a individual who would not recommendations to cheat, kill, harm, invade, occupy, etc, if it serves our financial pursuits. Throw an atomic bomb right here, eliminate this CIA operative long previous AWOL there(panama), pay and help any dictator interior the international that serves our pursuits.... i understand that's all company as commonplace for you. do exactly no longer mislead your self in attempting to dignify this conflict as extra beneficial than what that's. And in case you think of oil has no longer something to do with this conflict, properly, while are we entering into Saudi Arabia, Somalia, North Korea, Fiji, Indo,Sierra Leone, etc.? yet no. i understand you will say "we are actually not the international's police". yet having pronounced that, what the hell are we doing in Iraq then? to stay away from further assaults? stunning. we've in straight forward terms given them extra motives to accomplish that!

Answer 6

Because freeing the people was an afterthought of Bush's. We didn't originally go there to free the people, or did you forget that part of the plan? The reason people think that it involves oil is because he kept changing his reasoning for going to war in Iraq, he goes against the UN anyway, then there is the involvement of with Halliburton.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/hal.html

It was NOT part of the plan. That came towards the end. It all started with 9-11 involvment, then WMDs, then nuclear weapons potential, then that little chemical warfare scare, then as a last resort for not gaining the support he needed, it was all about Iraqi freedom. If you can't read between the lines, then you too are a sheep.

Answer 7

Oil is real, it can be supplied, it has a price. Free and liberated Muslim middle east is a pipe dream, it can not be supplied, no amount of money can buy it. we'll all turn to dust before it happens.
GWB is a believing man, he wishes the world to be what he was brought up to believe is right, but even he can tell the difference between reality and daydreams.

Answer 8

Because he has done nothing to free the Palestinian people from the brutal occupation of the Israelis. You can look at this article and see they israelis are treating the palestinians much like the Nazi's treated the Jews in WWII.

Answer 9

Rather than speculate as to the motives and moral character of GWB, I'll just say that if I assume he has the best interests of the country in mind, my conclusion will be that he's utterly incompetent and a very very poor judge of character, given the people he chooses to associate with and who he allows to shape his foreign and domestic policy.

The saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Answer 10

Because he ignores massive genocides in Africa and Europe.

He is blase' about el salvador, nicaragua, honduras, ecuador, panama but is quite concerned about the south american nation furthest from the USA...Venezuela (where there is oil)