Why do people think the War is over OIL???

Question

Why do people think the War is over OIL???

I do not get it...We are not at war for oil...We are at war to keep America and her allies safe...End of story...Oh yeah, if the war was about stealing oil, then why are we paying 3x more for gas than we were before the war??? Anyway...I want to hear someone PROVE that we are stealing oil....Show me the proof...Oh thats right....there isn't any...Wake up morons... This war is about stopping terrorism...not oil...But if you think it is...Prove it to me...

Answer 1

because it is....

first thing we did when we entered Iraq?

did we go after Saddam first? no.

did we try to make Iraq "safer"? no.

did we secure the borders? no.

the first thing we did: we secured the oil fields.

17/19 terrorists involved in 9/11 (which IS what started this whole thing, in case you forgot) were NOT Iraqis...they Saudi Arabian....gee i wonder why we aren't in Saudi Arabia combating the terrorists there? hm, Bush and his family are good buddies with the Saudi royal family, because they are connected to the OIL......

anyways, it's not really what the war is about anymore...we need to get out, we need to let the Iraqi people govern their own society now, all we're doing now is causing tension.

Answer 2

Because the war is over OIL. If you want proof, then sit down for a minute and see if you can figure out why a pre-emptive strike was not directed at North Korea first (where the brutal dictator is starving his own people), Cuba second, (where the extended families of so many Americans are being abused by a brutal dictator), Sudan, Burma, Zimbabwe? The list goes on!

They don't have any oil....


And while "stopping terrorism" is a fine ideal, it is not any more practical than "fighting" against drugs. The way to win against terrorism is with politics, not bullets...

Answer 3

1. The war in Iraq was over WMD and the removal of Saddam. Turns out there are no WMD but the removal of Saddam is probably a good thing for long term stability in the region if a full scale civil war can be avoided when the troops finally leave.
2. The war in Afghanistan was about getting rid of the Taliban and catching Osama but the unfortunate flip side to this coin is that the farmers in the country now have a free hand in producing opium (which was outlawed by the Taliban) and flooding world markets with heroin.
3. We are now in a situation where a war in Iran may come about. Again we are told that this is to ensure stability in the ME region even though Iran has stated that it is not enriching uranium for WMD, only for nuclear power. Iran is years away from having the technology and enough centrifuges to enrich uranium to weapons grade.

The US and UK governments are leading our countries into a disaster on a huge scale and no-one can see it.

Answer 4

The war is about lots of things. Oil is our chief economic interest in the middle east, and you can't discount or oversimplify that fact. Private multinational firms ship it through a pipeline in Turkey, same pipeline that was used in the oil for food program that the UN was running until we stole the show from them. OPEC sets oil prices and that along with overall scarcity and demand sets the price. It always goes up in the summer because we run our AC. These aren't big revelations or anything. Nor do I think there is any reason to go to bed crying over it. Yes, the war is partially about oil. So what?

We don't fight wars based on charity, otherwise we'd be setting the Burmese or the Tibetans free from military juntas and drug lords or imposed foreign rule. We pick our battles.

But you are right that terror coming out of long-term threats in the region, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, are equally imporant. They are the people who have been cutting off heads and making the more sophisticated bombs in Iraq, in case you haven't noticed. The "head decapitation" stuff is a signature mark of Saudi fundamentalists (they still have public beheadings in that country, and a long history of it. Saudi Mujahedin brought the practice to Afghanistan years ago). Of course, I wouldn't blame you for not knowing this since the liberal media calls them "foreign fighters" rather than "Iranian Agents" (predominately Shiite) or "Saudi terrorists" (predominately Sunni) because they are afraid to inflame those countries further. You have a leader in Iran that openly states the complete destruction of Israel, and Saudis with a tenuous grip of control over their own fundamentalist masses.
Iraq is a vacuum that attracts terror from these two countries and a killing field where we exterminate them and gain intel on their foreign sources and support networks. Afghanistan is too rugged and has less proximity to these two countries. Iraq is a better place to fight the war on terror.

The Middle East is a very complicated place, and this war is a very complicated issue. Grade school analysis from partisans on either side of politics are not helpful, nor are they productive. You should figure out who the enemy is and stop attacking your neighbors, and leave the strategic analysis to the Generals.

Answer 5

you and i don't support a war for oil, but that is one of the important factors in favor of the war.
30 yrs. ago, most of the world's known oil reserves were controlled by private industry, i.e. the large multinational oil companies. These markets were open to foreign investment.
They controlled the oil because only these companies had the knowledge and ability to find and extract the oil from the ground, and the host countries were too poor and desperate to demand a better deal. However, over the last 30 years, most of these countries have nationalized their oil industries, causing oil companies to lose more and more control. Politically, washington worries about oil being used as a political weapon against the west.
The American Enterprise Institute, a neoconservative think tank, believes that the situation is dangerous to the west and that the world's oil supply needs to be privatized like before, by force if necessary.
Most of President Bush's foreign policy advisors, as well as State Dept. officials, were hired directly from the American Enterprise Institute.

Right now as we speak, the Bush Administration is pressuring the Al Maliki govt. of Iraq to pass a bill to privatize 80% of Iraq's oil wells. The Iraqi Congress is currently debating the bill.
On Bush's present latin american tour, he is pressuring mexico and guatemala to privatize their oil industries. Bush is leveraging the current immigration crisis with mexico and financial support for guatemala.

Answer 6

The war is not about terrorism-there were no terrorists in Iraq before the war as Saddam was tough enough to keep them out.He never had WMD'S-that was a lie.

It's about oil.

Stop watching FOX news and listening to the moron in the white house and his lackeys and you may learn the truth.

Answer 7

Get off your high horse, the lack of oxygen is affecting your thinking and perceptions. Iraq was such a dire threat to America we needed to invade and depose Saddam to make the world a safer place. Looks to me like that's backfired. Tell me, what are all of those workers from Halliburton doing in Iraq? Look up Operation Iraqi Freedom, on day two we controlled their oil infrastructure from top to bottom. That's probably why we never hear a word about Iraq's oil. Mark my words, we won't leave Iraq until we have secured the rights to their oil reserves. Why do people refuse to believe the fiasco is about anything other than oil?

Answer 8

Any invasion of a country that has the 2nd largest supplies of oil in the world by the world leading user of oil (US) is at least partially because of oil. But I agree, it was not main reason, the protection of our greatest ally Israel by getting rid of Saddam was the #1 reason (US had been planning that five years before 9/11). & yes oil prices went up a little because of the invasion but Bush is thinking about the long term & having a oil contract in place with the Iraqi Govt. promising cheap oil to the US for life from Iraq, which they signed last week, will keep gas prices in the US relatively cheap for the next 100 years.

Answer 9

Okay, there is just too much readily available information out there for me to even start posting links. Do your own search, and read whatever sources YOU trust, but the fact of the matter is that the "Petroleum Law" is one of the highest agenda items of the Iraqi government and its American sponsors NOT because it will divide oil revenues equitably between Iraqis and end the civil strife there, but because it will allow and encourage foreign investment in Iraq's neglected oilfields. This prospect has been illegal since Saddamn nationalized the Iraqi oil industry in the early 1970's, and is not very popular among Iraqis afraid that the reason for our presence there is in fact our thirst for oil.

Implausible?

Less plausible than the whole WMD/Al-Qaeda/spreading democracy (but not interested in their oil) line we've been fed thus far?

I think not.

Answer 10

the problem is that we've stayed too long in Iraq. We met our goals long ago. now we're babysitting a government that doesn't seem to want to move forward, or doesn't know how. a civil war has evolved and now we're mired in the sand. the two types of terrorists over there are one: freedom fighters that want us out and two: those that are pouring in over the borders, hellbent on seeing a theocracy style government be installed. if fighting terrorism was the true agenda then we'd be going to where the terrorists live and train but we're not. Many people are grasping at straws trying to figure out why we're still over there and oil seems like a viable reason.

Answer 11

it is amazing how the liberals just keep giving up blogs writen by other liberals as proof lmao.

in every war the loosing party has to pay something towards costs and this is all that is happening. if there was no oil they would be saying that it was about sand or something and sure enough some liberal would have writen a blog to back it up.