Did you know the Iraq war was all about oil?

Question

[ “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says. ]
"Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece

The liberals were right all along!
Why didn't the Republicans ever get it?
Do you still want to continue spilling your blood and tax dollars for oil? Is your SUV more important?

Wrong, Saddam never claimed to have WMD. Just the opposite- he claimed to have destroyed them all. Even Hussein Kamel (Iraq's top WMD General) claimed they were all destroyed when he defected and was debriefed in Jordan by IAEA and UNSCOM. Unfortunately, the West demanded Iraq prove the negative. But you can't prove a negative! That's the foundation of Western jurisprudence- since you can't prove a negative, you are innocent until PROVEN guilty. It's amazing how much trouble the United States gets into when it forgets its own principles.

Answer 1

Not only just oil but oil for dollars and if Greenspan tells the whole truth in his memoirs this will also come out. Seems the republicans didn't want to believe this until another prominant republican comes out with it. Iran is also trying to crush the dollar by selling oil in euro's and rejecting the dollar. What many people are also denying that they need to face is the bigger problem of the two and that is Peak Oil. Under Bush like regimes we will see these wars continue unless the world governments come clean about whats really going on. We are facing a worldwide crisis because the oil is running out people. The republican plan is to keep killing until they are getting that oil out with spoons. We need an alternative plan NOW not 10 years from now. We are already seriously behind on this ever growing problem. Going green is the right thing to do.
We need to grow food instead of green lawns and make good decisions about what to do with the remaining oil.

http://www.oilempire.us/
Peak Oil and the NAU
http://www.energybulletin.net/23816.html

Answer 2

grant and demand has no longer something to do with it. China and India are presently receiving their oil from Suda, Venezuela, and different arising international locations. there is a lot and an excellent kind of oil interior the Persian gulf, or the middle East. till now the conflict, oil became into approximately $27, and now, this is over $143 because of the valueless fee that the greenback includes, this is critically inflated if we proceed to pay for those wars. additionally, the FED devaluated the greenback, and that they curb expenditures of pastime jointly as printing it out of skinny air! This only makes the concern even worse. IF we had gold/silver as our significant backing to the greenback, gas could've been a similar fee because it became into till now the Iraq invasion. It only that "fiat currencies" in no way paintings, that's in basic terms paper and it could tend to get destroyed extremely if we shop printing, printing, spending and spending. All this impacts the greenback, the financial device, and the individuals. Take care.

Answer 3

Greenspan is right and so are you. There is an evil about in the world today that is fueled by greedy cynicism. Even when the politicians openly state they have flaunted American law by doing business in Iran for the oil companies and support companies like Haliburton that politician can become vice-president of the U.S. and there is no huge public outcry for that politician's removal from office and prosecution. This administration has correctly judged that the American public will go along with virtually any thing it does as long as they cloak their actions in "patriotism." When in fact they have committed the most unpatriotic acts of all. The destabilization of the American economy as well as the unneccessary loss of American lives. Not to mention the tens of thousands of ordinary Iraqis who are now dead who would otherwise would still be living normal lives. Can anyone really in good conscience say that the Iraqi people are better off now than under Saddam, as awful a dictator as he was. It was never about Saddam, WMDs, terrorists, or democracy. In fact our greatest ally in the general area is Pakistan, which is ruled by a military dictatorship. Do you, America, think the people of the world are all stupid? Don't you think they see this double standard on the part of American political leaders? It was always about oil! Do you think it is an accident that the oil industry has seen the greatest profits in it's history under the Bush administration. Why are we so blind? Why do our congressional leaders act like sheep? Why doesn't the justice dept. and the courts do something? Oil. The most powerful driving force in the world today. We would sacrifice a thousand Iraqs for oil profits. And our institutions that are supposed to protect us and hold our elected leaders to a higher standard will remain silent and inactive. Now can you understand how demogogues like Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin can come to power? Now you can add the name "Bush" to the list.

Answer 4

He doesn't say it in the same way the so called liberals did.
His contention was that Saddam might start a war that would involve the entire middle-east and stop the flow of all oil from the region.
He doesn't say Bush wanted to steal Iraqi oil like other people claimed in the past.

Answer 5

First of all, currently being in Iraq I do not see any grabbing for oil. I do see a lot of infrastructure rebuilding though, and a lot of training of Iraqi forces...in the thousands.

Secondly, being a Republican in the military, I don't care if it was for oil, or a basket of eggs in the middle of the Gulf. I follow orders to fight for the political interests of our country. And oil is a political interest.

Third, I swore to uphold the interests of my country with my life. My oath. My choice....Keep the 'bloodspilling' comments to yourself.

And last, but definetly not least. Do you exclusively walk, live by candlelight, cook over an open fire, warm your house by burning wood (Unrefined smoke there, buddy!), and have no plastic products in your home whatsoever??!! No you do not! So unless you're a caveman, I think you're using some of that oil too!

Answer 6

It could be true. But what is really worrisome is Greenspan's assessment of the Bush administration's out of control overspending over the years. The current US budget deficit continue to grow enormously. It's just a matter of time that it will drastically affect the US economy and the lives of ordinary Americans.

The exchange-rate value of the US Dollar has dropped against most of the world's currencies and is now at its lowest point in 30 years. This alone, is a sign of things to come.

Take that from Greenspan, the world's highly respected economist.

Answer 7

Yes, we all knew that it was mostly about oil. There was some legitimacy to the WMD's, but they were later proved to be mistaken.

With that being said, and I know I'm about to piss everyone off, what is bad about going to war for oil? Yes, the President should've been more upfront about ALL the reasons, but he wasn't so we must move on. Do you enjoy your way of life? Do you like the fact that you can afford a hybrid? I damn sure love being able to drive me SUV (which is important to me). I've been to Iraq and the Middle East many times in uniform and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're doing the right thing over there.

Saddam was a HUGE threat to the stability of oil in the Middle East. He craved the idea of being in control of Kuwait, Saudi and Iran. There would've come a point where the instability in oil would topple the foreign markets beginning with Asia, Europe and finally us.

I know that no one wants to go to war for oil, but welcome to the real world. We are nation that needs a commodity so 95% of us can go on with our lives without interuption. There has to be a peace in this part of the world in order to stabilize the world economic markets.

Answer 8

You couldn't be more incorrect. Where were you on 9/11? I was watching bodies fall from 102nd floor!!. Al Queda was hosted by Afghanstan, when beaten they moved to Pakistan. Meanwhile, Saddam in Iraq claimed he had WMD' from the Iraqi and Iranian war. Tony Blair, Putin, KGB and M7 all agreed he had WMD not to mention CIA. he was inviolation of 17 UN resolutions, he constantly overflew his planes in the UN no fly zone. He was using the food for oil program to enrich himself and to delvelop a nuclear capability to counter IRan. The simple fact is we have not received oil from Iraq in since before Desert Storm. Iraq was a a preventive war to avoid any chance of WMDS going to Al Quaeda to prevent another 9/11. Even today the 2 milion barrels of oil Iraq now produces, does not go to the U.S., but rater to rebuild Iraq. So we still are not getting any oil from them. Our oil comes from U>S., Saudi Arabia, UAE, Indonesia, North Sea, Alaska and Kuwait. I have been in the oil industry for 30 years. So stop reading nut job liberal web siites and do your own research.

Answer 9

I'm not offering this as justification by any means, only as a matter of perspective. If you've ever seen "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), you might recall an interesting bit of dialog between the 'Turner' and 'Higgins' characters. It's in the article linked below, and begins with:
Turner replies: 'Ask them.'
http://www.world-nuclear.org/reference/obs271105.html

Answer 10

And Greenspan is an expert on geopolitics because?? The only connection to oil that this war has is that if the Islamic Jihadist *ever* get control of world supplies then *everyone* is in deep dodo. In case you hadn't noticed not all oil companies and *BIG OIL* are American.... BP, Shell, Citgo for example are not.