How many Iraqis have died for Americans to have cheap oil?

Answer 1

not a damn one.



EDIT:people don't get cynicism?

Answer 2

If you count both wars and the embargo between the wars, well over a million. During the embargo as many as a million Iraqis died from preventable, treatable diseases because they couldn't get the drugs, and couldn't get materials to rebuild the hospitals, water treatment and sewage treatment plants destroyed by US bombers during the first Gulf War, and the majority of these deaths were small children, five years or younger. Madeline Albright, President Clinton's secretary of state, was asked in an interview whether it was worth killing -half a million- Iraqi kids to contain Saddam and without batting an eye she said it was worth it. Independent estimates of deaths in the current Iraq war run as high as 600,000.

But, as you see, these deaths didn't result in cheap gas. The first Gulf War had the 'incidental' effect of keeping Iraqi oil off the world market for almost 20 years, keeping world prices high and oil company profits up. The second Gulf War destabilized the region and put the whole future of gulf oil in jeopardy, raising prices and profits to the obscene level we see today.

Answer 3

not sure where you are getting your information, but the Iraqi's are not dying for cheap oil and I believe the stock market verifies that oil is not cheap at all. secondly, you should take a hard look at the real reasons that the Iraqi's are dying..it is genocide, it is one faction that believes that it is right and everyone who disagrees with them is wrong...it is between the Iraqi Shiites who were a majority population but had no rights and were controlled by the Sunni Bathe minority. The violence between the Iraqi people has nothing to do with oil but with their difference in beliefs and worship in Islam.

Answer 4

Who's getting cheap oil? I want in on that.

Answer 5

Oils is not cheap and Americans don't have any oil. Dubya is the one who gets oil.

Answer 6

everbody is talking here about price of oil because they do not want talk about facts this question is not about price of oil.it's about How many Iraqis died during war.

Answer 7

More lib coolaid? No, the oil is less than before and goes to other countries, including China, not the US.

An old, tired excuse of a pathetic question....

Besides, if we controled Kuwiat 14 years ago (they have more and better oil than Iraq) why did we leave and not just stay and gey all our oil for free?
Yeah, why does it cost so much now? genius?

Answer 8

before each thing, this isn't a Communist society. the authorities does no longer administration the fee of gas (except for the taxes that it places upon gas). we stay in a loose marketplace society. marketplace forces administration the fee of gas. Secondly, did you comprehend the way pathetic you sound whining about the fee of gas even as over 3,000 American infantrymen have died over there?

Answer 9

The sad part is, that through techniques such as biopolymerization, we could actually take Iraqi biomass and convert it into usable oil.

Thus, we would be better off simply killing Iraqis and using the organic carbon in their carcasses for fuel, directly...

Answer 10

like i've posted before... FACTUAL evidence buddy!!! we have AMPLE oil in our own backyard.. why would we need to spend BILLIONS of money and THOUSANDS of lives to STEAL someone else's oil??? if that was the case, there's ohhh a dozen other countries that are closer to our side of the hemisphere we could have invaded...

and to the guy that said we have killed over 1 million Iraqis since 2003... LMAO!!! where in the heck did you come up with that number??? 85-90% of ALL civilian casualties have been because of sectarian violence and suicide bombers.. NOT because of military opperations... innocent lives lost are nothing to disregard, but, in times of WAR.. innocent people get killed!! there's no way around that.. been that way since the first person was wacked over the head with a rock..

Answer 11

We have cheap oil? Since when?