If the war in Iraq was just about oil then why didn't we just take it in the 1st gulf war?

Answer 1

If this was the truth--oil--why didn't Bush simply follow the lead of Schroeder, Putin, Hu and Chirac?

Hell, even Koffi, who was then President of the Assembly of the UN dismissed the very sanctions he was charged to uphold and profited from Saddam's barbarity and greed.

Do some not understand America has protected it's interests, and those of the free world, in and around the Persian Gulf since WW II?

Answer 2

Hard for me to be objective about this since I've never believed a single word that those who authorized and oversaw both wars had to say on the subject. Having said that, it seems to me that an equally valid question would be, if removing Saddam Hussein was the goal, why didn't THAT happen in the first gulf war? I'm not being sarcastic by the way- that's a serious question, and a valid one in my view.

Answer 3

If it was truly about energy we would be thinking about how to change the economics of Renewable Energy. It is unlikely that Renewable Energy will ever be able to directly compete with the energy that created it's infrastructure at the price that the time infrastructure was created. The myth that when solar will be directly economically viable when it is done on a utility scale doesn't recognize the main cost of the infrastructure is the energy that created it!

The replace oil with home grown corn doesn't consider that selling corn to make fuel causes the price of food to go up. How much rainforest had to be distroyed to run to Brazil's cars?

Answer 4

The reason you are still paying a lot for oil is because they have control of that oil. Not supplying that oil for the first few years had jakes the prices up but most don't understand supply and demand.

The first gulf war was to protect Kuwait, the second gulf war was for oil and arms deals.

Answer 5

George HW Bush on why Hussein wasn't ousted:

"While we hoped that popular revolt or coup would topple Saddam, neither the U.S. nor the countries of the region wished to see the breakup of the Iraqi state. We were concerned about the long-term balance of power at the head of the Gulf."

Answer 6

You are causing the left to think you need to stop that before they figure it out on their own, that the war is not about the oil itself but access to it. The left could solve the problem by simply let the oil companies drill here in the US and build Nuke plants, but that would require revolutionary thinking on their part.

Answer 7

The father was smarter than the son.

We should not march into Baghdad ... To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero ... condemning them [our soldiers] to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.

-- George H. W. Bush, 41st U. S. President from "A World Transformed," 1998


I wish he'd listened to his dad

Answer 8

Everyone's tired of pumping ethyl.
Now they all want to pump ethanol.

Without creating new refineries the cost will only get higher - even if we buy WELL OVER the current 4% of crude from the Middle East.

Answer 9

who said it was, i certainly didnt. Its a war, and Iraq was the first pawn to be taken out. Next is Iran, then Irael will destry Syria. Mark my words

Answer 10

Good point! But they'll find a way to blame it on George W. and Global Warming and intolerant conservatives and Christians.