If one of the reasons we're in Iraq is for oil, why is that so wrong???

Question

Many people think we're in Iraq only for the oil. I personally believe thats ONE OF THE REASONS we're there but not the ONLY REASON.

Why are people bashing Bush?? This country runs on oil and we need it no matter what. We can't just let any bad country (Iran) take over the other countries that we buy oil from. Our president is just looking out for us in the future...

What do you think???

Our nation always bought or traded for goods. If they don't let us, then we take it!
what can we do? I asked them nicely

OH OK... its their oil and not ours. So, lets not have oil and let countries like Iran take care of the oil supply for the world...
Please....

oh ok. so we try to buy them the oil and we try to trade for the oil and still they don't want to give us some just to make us suffer??? WE TAKE THEN!!!

I will like to see everyone that opposes me or saying that taking the oil is wrong start walking so they won't spend gas...

its funny how some people will condemn the war if it was for oil, but ofcourse you will still use it and need the oil, right??? Please, we all know that no matter what we(US) need the oil at all cost. That's the reality

Answer 1

I agree with you. I think Mr. Bush is a good man and is doing a good job in some areas.
The UN moved the Iraqis out of Kuwait, to keep oil away from Hussien. That was a good thing.

Answer 2

Would you sacrifice your life or your childs life for oil?

Think about it, if Iraq was some poor country with no resources we would never have invaded. So oil is THE reason for the war.

Again, would you be willing to die so the oil companies can make record profits? Would you be willing see your child die that way our country doesn't have to work on developing an alternative energy source? It sounds like you would. So when are you going to die for my oil?

People like you are destroying the country. I hope horrible things for your future since you have zero respect for anybody elses well being. Typical Con, ok with OTHER people dying but of course, it's easy to be ok with it when you're a coward sitting at home on your computer, NOT ENLISTED in the military.

Answer 3

It's beyond me why you think that this is a funny subject? These aren't the days of barbarians, when one country invaded another country to steal whatever they wanted and killed innocent men, women, and children while they were at it.
The Iraqi people have been suffering terribly since they were invaded in March 2003:

"The amount of death resulting from Bush's invasion is impossible to determine, but it quite plausibly could be as high as 1.2 million Iraqi lives, according to the most recent survey conducted by ORB, a British polling agency. Again, this number can be attributed directly to the U.S. because it was our invasion that provoked the suffering. Other figures reveal a stark picture. Unemployment estimates in Iraq range from 25-60 percent (the unemployment rate in the U.S. during the Great Depression was 25 percent). Eighty percent of Iraqis don't have access to effective sanitation and 70 percent lack regular clean water. An estimated 25 percent of Iraqi children suffer from malnutrition."

BTW, the US imports the majority of it's oil from Canada and Mexico.
I've included sources so you can educate yourself.

Answer 4

We didn't go into Iraq because we wanted their oil. Let's be clear about this. It is not so Halliburton or Exxon can get good deals on Iraqi crude. Oil figures into it because right now it is the underpinning of the industrialized world.

However, for decades the Middle East has been considered strategically important because modern civilization runs on crude oil. So, all the industrialized countries have a strategic stake in what happens in the Middle East, and a stake in the continued flow of oil.

That is why we (on a small scale compared to France Russia or China) reluctantly gave Saddam support in the Iran-Iraq war, because the Irani mullahs were seeking hegemony over the Persian Gulf.

It is also why the world quickly formed a coalition to kick Saddam out of Kuwait. If it didn't have worldwide economic implications, do you think we'd have cared? No.

It is the reason why France had such a cozy relationship with Iraq - often violating international laws and treaties to help Saddam - because they needed Iraqi oil.

The strategic and necessary flow of oil.

Answer 5

The reason why is because Saddam threatened to change the currency of oil from dollars to euros.
Oil can only be bought by American dollars and Saddam was going to change that.
That could have crippled the American economy and the European countries would have benefited greatly.
That's why they invaded...they want to remain a supreme super-power over the rest of the world and naturally they invaded and stole it.
Americas fantastic relationship with Saudi shows that already.

Answer 6

The only place where new oil reserves are found are in countries that have proven hostile to the USA. 90% of the money that funds the terrorists are from oil money.
It is in our best interests to find alternative sources of energy so we do not have to commit hundreds of billion of dollars a year to subduing the terrorists that we funded through oil money in countries that hate us.
If we tried to be energy independednt countries such as Iran, Iraq, Usbekistan, and others would have no money to fight us and no tools to throw against us.

Answer 7

I guess it depends on how you look at it. If your at war with a country then it only makes sense to secure their resources for you own benefit. It's only military strategy. People bash bush because he went to war without consent. Also our unnecessary dependence on oil is a problem. You don't cure and alcoholic by getting them more alcohol. They can't solve our oil problems by stealing us more oil wither.

Answer 8

Before the WMD thing was made up and we invaded Iraq was talking with England, Ireland and other countries to share oil to bring down the costs. ... well America just couldnt let that happen now could they. It would be nice if people in the USA got the real news.

Answer 9

I think Mr. Bush is doing just what he is being allowed to do by our government. Just because he is at the top of the pile doesn't make him the boss.
Oil is not the reason we are at war with Iraq. A sh*tload of oil is the reason.
Let's remember that even if we do pull out of Iraq, the troops will remain. We have never pulled our troops out from anywhere. We still have federal troops in Georgia and Germany and Japan and......

Answer 10

I think that if we are there for the oil, then Bush should admit it.

After all, if there is nothing wrong with it, then he should be more than happy to make a public statement to that effect.

OH! HOLD ON!

This just in: We are in Iraq because of W.M.D.'s that pose a clear and present danger to our country.

HA!

Answer 11

Because the administration has never admitted we are there for oil. They made up stories about WMD, hinted at links to 9/11 and when that fell apart they said we were there to spread democracy, that it was part of a global war on terrorism, then Islamo-Fascism... They've said everything except that we were there to secure our oil supply.

If being there for oil is such a valid reason, why didn't they say that in the first place.

Obviously, it isn't a vaid reason to invade another country.