Do you think Iraqs oil reserves had anything to do with the Bush administrations decision to topple Saddam?

and send troops into iraq?Do you think Iraqs oil reserves had anything to do with the Bush administrations decision to topple Saddam?
Yes.





It has to do with securing the 2nd largest remaining oil reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia goes dry.





Give them a decade to ramp up production, while the Saudi's ramp down.Do you think Iraqs oil reserves had anything to do with the Bush administrations decision to topple Saddam?
Even the snails I crush on the way to school know that the war was about oil. The perfect pretext for it was available and that is why Bush and Company decided to go to war. Sadam was not really the problem. If you do a deep study to his style of leadership, you will find that he was actually more liberal and democratic than that of the current King of Saudi Arabia. Our government only demonized him in our minds because he stopped being a slave/submissive dictator to our government's interests. Most people don't even know of any of our current allies' human records because our government is turning a blind eye to them. But once a government ceases to become a slave/submissive government, then our president will start demonizing it and revealing its human rights abuses.





Oil reserves are dwindling. We are close to, if not already at, peak production. And with the rise of China and India as gas-guzzlers, Bush decided to take pre-emptive actions and secure Iraqi oil for western exploitation.
No. Have you noticed that oil prices are Still Going Up? If that would have been the case they would have moved on the oil fields, taken them over and pumped oil.





I think they did not take advantage of a situation where they could have bargained for lower prices for the next decade or two.





Have you heard of all the schools, hospitals, roads etc that have been built though? Have you heard that the majority of people are happy?





If not check out the Economist - where you will get the truth.
Care to look up how much of the Iraqi oil we get?? Might surprise you Liberals!!





The oil is mostly controlled by the Kurds and the Iraqi government and it's sold to help bring financial stability to Iraq. It's sold to anyone who will buy it. Wanna bet your so called Bush Oil Company gets any?? What a dumb statement butthats the norm for Liberals!!!
Definitely. Why didn't he go into other countries that ';needed help';?


It's obvious that the oil was the only reason. They know for sure that the bush administration lied to the whole world when they told him about the ';weapons of mass destruction'; that they didn't have.
Not at all, that is far left gossip and rumor. Don't you think the media would be having a field day if Bush were profiting from a war he initially started. Don't you think the 110th congress would be having hearings? Fact is hyped rumor by bloggers that want recognition put this garbage out. And it'll get worse as time moves on.
since the Iraqi oil is being sold on the open market I don't see that as a reason. Since the Democrats were the ones that were telling us about the threat Saddam posed to the region all thru the 90s, I would expect a president to finally act on it.
Why do you think the first thing the army secured were the oil fields?








BTW-----I still wonder whatever happened to the hundreds of millions in American cash went.Remember the money found they found in some of Saddam's palaces.
Yeah,that and the fact that Saddam had stopped selling his oil in dollars and started accepting Euros instead. As of Feb 2008, Iran is doing the same thing.
I do think we went there for oil (mostly). You do realize oil is an incredibly valuable thing don't you? You would have to very stupid not to understand that.
Yes bceause President Bush also had a ';self interest'; notion to the war, because he also owns an oil company in Texas.





For all I know, he should have been impeached for being a moron.
You're wrong there - It wasn't Iraq's oil, it was America's oil. Iraq was only holding it for us
Unlikely...but it's an easy thing for some Liberals to say.





If that were the case the US would invade Venezuela and Canada first.
As a person with a funtional brain and an IQ double yours, I have to say no.
We're still in Iraq arent we?
where's our oil payoff, then
yes





why else would they go there