Our government's top priority for the Iraqi parliment is for it to pass a law that privatizes the Iraqi oil fields, allowing foreign companies thirty year leases with no requirements about hiring Iraqis or sharing oil revenue.
What in the world does this have to do with the Iraqi civil war, or is there some other reason the U.S. is pushing for this law?
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2007-08-09 06:55:16 · 5 answers · asked by Steve 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No, they are fighting because each disagrees with the other's view on Islam and it's practice. They're barbarians.
2007-08-09 06:59:09 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oil revenues are a big issue. The Shiites, Sunnis & Kurds all want more than thier share of oil revenues. The oil feilds are primarily in the Shiite south, with some in the Kurdish north. There's basically no oil wealth in the Sunni areas. Thus the Shiites would like oil wealth to be distributed regionally, while the Sunnis would want it federally administered - and each side would prefer to just sieze complete control of all the oil wealth, and the government, for themselves.
2007-08-09 14:02:45 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Shiites and Sunnis WILL NEVER fight over oil. Only over religious beliefs and religious power. It's not even a civil war with them but a religious war, to fight and prove their version of the qu'ran is the "true book" for believers.
2007-08-09 14:00:13 · answer #3 · answered by Colonel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have been fighting for centuries. Go read some history.
2007-08-09 14:20:27 · answer #4 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, they are fighting for power over the masses as to who will worship their view of islam.
2007-08-09 14:02:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋