In Iraq for the Oil?

Question

I want to hear every liberal's reasoning for why we are in Iraq for the oil? How do you know? etc. etc.

Note: I KNOW WE DIDN'T WENT THERE FOR OIL.......

go here and see how much we even get from them anyway. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/images/facts/fotw350.gif

*we didn't go there*

Answer 1

I think if you had done a little research as I have you would find out that the Iraqi war is not about oil. It is about the cost of oil and ultimately profits from oil as well as profits to the vender's that feed the war machine, logistic's. I mean as you eliminate reasons for going to war, WMD's, depose Saddam, establish democracy, ect. None of these are turning out to be true. It is the only conclusion that I can come to is it is about profiteering.

Answer 2

It was not the oil itself that was important it was how Saddam was selling that oil. Basically towards the end of 2000 Saddam insisted that his oil be sold through the oil for food program in Euros. Saddam also converted his national reserves to Euros. The basic was principle is that the dollar is the world reserve currency and all oil is sold in dollars. This means that if every country converted their dollars to another currency e.g. Euros (which could be used to buy oil) the dollar would rapidly become worhless. Saddam set a dangerous example which the US couldn't allow to be considered by other oil producer. Unfortunately OPEC are actively discussing switching the oil trade to Euros and Iran has already started a bourse for the Euro oil trade as of the end of 2006. Venezuela are also considering switching to Euros. Find the pressure on Venezuela, Russia and Iran strange? Well it probably has everything to do with the fact that these countries trade fully, partly or are considering trading their oil in Euros. You can read more about the petrodollar war on my blog. I have also attached a few other links. I expect many thumbs down but then the truth does hurt.

Answer 3

"The Middle East is center of the world's energy resources... That's been an axiom of U.S. foreign policy, that it must control Middle East energy resources. It is not a matter of access ... the issue has always been control. Control is the source of strategic power."
Noam Chomsky
"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population.... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming, and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction.... We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."
George Kennan, U.S. State Department memo, 1948

I suspect it isn't the oil, per se, but the control, and Saddam threatened that control when he began discussing selling Iraqi oil to China and Russia (as well as Western Europe) in Euros instead of US Dollars. This was a war by and for the vitality of the US treasury, led by the un-elected, unaccountable, private corporation that had and still has the most to lose if and when this happens, the Federal Reserve Bank(s).

Answer 4

We are not in Iraq for oil. Actually, most of the United States's oil comes from Canada, South America, and the Gulf of Mexico area. In fact, Canada and South America produce the most oil. Top 5 producers:
1. Canada
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Mexico
4. Venezula
5. Nigeria
8. Iraq
14. Kuwait

The United States also produces 7.61 million barrels per day

Answer 5

The answer is "Connect the dots." Dick Cheney is connected to Halliburton. Halliburton is an oilfield supply company. George W. Bush is in the oil business. He owns production in Yemen. He owns a refinery off the coast. The reason for attacking Iraq was not to take the oil, but to drive the price of oil up. It has succeeded in doing that.

Answer 6

How about this "liberal" reasoning for why we are in Iraq:

Saddam was planning on selling oil in Euros. That would collapse the dollar (even though it's already sinking). Now Iran is trying to do the same with its oil bourse. And Russia is trying to sell oil with rubles. Google it. Every world paper has covered this, except in the US.
I heard on mainstream radio a week ago that BP and Shell have been awarded contracts, and that Iraqi laborers were protesting what was supposedly an unfair production sharing agreement. I don't want to sound like a liberal goon, so please research this one for yourselves. I could be wrong.

Answer 7

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> PTOBABLY

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> Oil companies first drilled in
> SA or Yemen, or anyplace in the
> Persian Gulf which for some geological
> reason has tons of crude oil(maybe
> God put it there).....

> & maybe our oil companies treated
> the people that live there in the UAR
> as good or worse than they have
> treated every other country on
> the planet. Figuring on what precious
> metals came from Africa, and whatever
> natural resource America has obtained
> from has been legally commerced
> by Central America, what is this "liberal
> reasoning" crap all about anyway?


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> and South America

Answer 8

It's not the OIL, it's the price of oil.
Before we invaded oil was $22 a barrel and falling. Chevron barely made $2 billion in three months. That's hardly enough for three execs to retire.
The UN was threatening to remove the sanctions on Iraq. Sadaam owed about $200 billion and would be flooding the market to pay off his debts. That was why we had to attack right away.

Well oil is $63 a barrel and Chevrons profits are in the hundreds of billions


MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Answer 9

If we were in Iraq for oil, the price of gas here in America would have dropped under a dollar a gallon.

But every since we've been in the middle east, the price has gone up, suggesting that we are not just stealing their oil.

People are truly inmature when they say that we are in Iraq for the oil.

Answer 10

Liberals believe we are over there for oil because some news anchor told them that was the case. You will note that liberals can not provide any evidence to back up their statements that the war is over oil.