I love the allegations that the invasion of Iraq was for control of Middle Eastern oil fields, and American control of those fields.
What I want to know is, since we invaded, won and now pulled out. Why the hell is the price of gas STILL so high?
Just trying to follow that logic.
we invaded, won and now pulled out
That's a crazy conclusion! You think they went to Iraq so you could get cheaper gas to cruise around the hood??? :-D
shareI love how people perpetuate that it was for oil, yet most of the oil resulted from Iraq actually ended up going to China. Hardly any of it went to the US.
shareI love the allegations that the invasion of Iraq was for control of Middle Eastern oil fields, and American control of those fields.
What I want to know is, since we invaded, won and now pulled out. Why the hell is the price of gas STILL so high?
Just trying to follow that logic
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Lol, somebody actually believed that the oil interest was to benefit the American people??? You made my day, 4 years later. When will Americans open their eyes to reality?
shareI love the allegations that the invasion of Iraq was for control of Middle Eastern oil fields, and American control of those fields.
People don't remember, but Cheney ran on securing Iraqi oil, during his 2000 VP campaign.
If you can find the speech, it's a pretty clear agenda he had.
Amazing that so many still forget the real selling point of the Iraqi War to the American people. It was a de facto revenge on the Middle East for 9/11. Never mind that Iraq had nothing to do with it; Americans were willing to support an invasion, in the end, via the sadly ignorant concept of "pay back".
But whether you argue that the invasion was for oil (liberal viewpoint) or to liberate the Iraqi people (conservative viewpoint), it was still an idiotic misadventure that was foolishly conceived and poorly planned. The Bush administration clearly showed they had no grasp of the complex results of invading Iraq. It didn't matter that our conventional military forces easily overwhelmed Iraqi's conventional forces, what mattered was what happened AFTER we took control of the country. This film actually touches on what a foolish delusion it was to believe that America could simply "export" democracy to such a wildly fractured, factional country. A country, by the way, created not by those in the Middle East but by the Europeans only last century. Interestingly, the film also touches on the idea that even IF the Americans had allowed the Baathists to continue to run the military and government, it would have been under such unreliable and morally questionable terms that major difficulties would have still arisen.
The fact is, results such as the eventual rise of ISIS were inevitable once we stirred up the hornet's nest of Middle Eastern turmoil by invading Iraq. Our goals there, honorable or not, only resulted in making things worse.