Do anti Iraq war protesters feel we only went there for the oil?

Question

However, how do you reconcile your conscience and use of oil/petrol and petroleum by products that could very well be from Iraq? I often think about Muslims that say whilst condemning terrorism, they worry about Muslim brothers/sisters etc in these countries- understandably. Bush and Blair have secured oil supplies there for us to use- is it morally right to live in the uk and use them and condone the war? Should we pay more for oil to stop these invasions happening? Or was it morally justifiable to go to war in Iraq?

Answer 1

There's a lot of demand to decrease our dependence on foreign oil, but it's unrealistic to give it up immediately. It's part of the daily lives of most Americans, so that would be a drastic sacrifice that many people would not agree to. All of the anti-war Presidential candidates seem to be pushing hard for a big increase in alternative energy sources though. It won't happen overnight, but if we get to the point where it's cheaper to get a car that doesn't use oil then Americans will start changing over real fast.

As for the war, I think the idea that it was FOR oil is just anti-establishment propaganda. However, the fact that we depend financially on a country that we considered an evil dictatorship had to weigh into the decision.

Answer 2

Iraq, like its neighbours, have a fundamental problem: religion. Through it, greedy tyrants manipulate most of the wealth, keepings there subjects in line through "the word of Allah."
Overpopulation of its' small boundaries causes a pressure on these tyrants to provide more of their earnings for social stability. Thus decreasing their profit. So they decide to up the prices on their international clientele.
Now, raising the prices so that their workers are better off is one thing, but raising it to enlarge their own profit is unacceptable to other continents.
So they decide to overthrow Suddam.
But, instead of ending it there and letting that country work it out from there, other "greedy" officials decide it would be better to select their representative and make many modifications to the "agreement" of oil provision (or, "we'll let you govern your country, but we'll control the oil supplies from now on").
So now different leaders use their power of religion to amass an army to take back what is theirs. Ergo 9/11, and the War on Terror.
So the oil may be the reason Bush is still there, but the eradication of Suddam was to free the people from his tyranny (even though there are so many tyrants around the world, Iraq just had what the world needed more). Look at the Burmese to see the difference. They just have monks, not oil, so no one steps in!

Answer 3

To go into Iraq was a no brainer... One of the major problems our military had at the time is it had just had the worst 8 years of leadership it could ever have. It was depleted of nearly everything it needed. Did we go for oil... Update kids, the price of oil is dictated by the futures market in New York, more than it is by opec. We could take over every oil field in the middle east, and the price of a barrel of oil would only go down a fraction of a percent.

The anti war protesters had to have something... and that's what they picked... I've laughed at that from the start.

Answer 4

It was bollocks. All about oil. World is full of tinpot dictators like N Korea Iran and a million other places.They went in on the b/s excuse of WMD at the same time N Korea said they had nukes. No-one invaded them. Yeah it was morally wrong and all about oil and its opened up a a real can of worms.Totally no win situation and may as well withdraw now and send the boys to the real front line Afghanistan.

Answer 5

You can't rconcile, cause these things have be come a necessaity, and therefore, like any other animal, we will snach, if we can't have it easily. All governments are working for their own national or racial interest, is just depends which side you are on. You may be called a terrorist by other countries, but will be called a freedom fighter in your. No noting justifies war, espasealiy this one/or the one fought in Afganistan. Go and see for yourselve, what the war has done to that lovely country.

No one govenment, should have the right to creat war. We still do it because, it is in OUR NATIONAL INTEREST, simply put, ya oil.

Answer 6

Oil prices have sky rocketed since the invasion of Iraq as oil from volatile regions is much more expensive to produce.

thfcsdyn - The real front line is the channel tunnel

Answer 7

A major motivation for the war was plainly to seize control of Iraq's oil supply, as even Alan Greenspan (not exactly a hippy liberal tree-hugger) has now admitted. See the link below.

Answer 8

It was for the Oil, and to stop everyone changing from selling Oil in Dollars, to sellin it in Euros....... Therefore skinting America and takin away its power and making all those Countries who signed up to the treacherous EU, Richer.


We're not all stoopid enough to believe that them twin towers, just collapsed from the bottom like that either.
Some people are smart enough to know a control ed demolition when they see it.
There are some dirty people running America at the moment who have been masters at propaganda, to hide their discgusting behaviour and to con the world to keep the money pouring in their and their mates pockets.

Answer 9

Saddam was a close friend of US before and US used to take the Iraqi oil long time ago and almost for free, so, it is not the oil only.
Saddam was a friend to US but not to (Israel), Saddam was selling oil to US but not to (Israel), Saddam was helping the Palestinian people in their problems against (Israel) and this is the most important reason to change Saddam and even to kill him, and not only him, but the Iraqi people too

Answer 10

I say if we went there for the oil,why arent we getting any of it?...there is nothing wrong with taking oil we need and Im all for topping off a bunch of tankers ever day for stateside..we can start now...