Bush's Iraq Oil War (Black Star News Editorial)

[struggle4progress]

... President Bush .... warned that if the U.S. failed in Iraq, it would “endanger Iraq’s oil resources and could serve as a severe disruption to the world economy” ...

.... No wonder Republican candidate John McCain talks of the U.S. staying there for at least 100 years ...

Global oil markets are roiled, with conflicts in other major producing areas; it’s beginning to look like McCain knows something the rest of us don’t know.

As long as military confrontation remains the preferred U.S. strategy in Iraq, and as long as oil markets remain disrupted, and energy demand in the West, India and China, continues to grow, there’ll be no light at the end of the tunnel.

http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=4378

[yurbud]

1. If we were worried about access to that oil, we would force the oil companies to accept Iraqis terms

not the other way around as we are doing with the Hydrocarbon Law that gives over 80% of the oil income to big oil companies.

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/03/juhasz-whose-oil-is-it-anyway.html

The strategic argument is only slightly more plausible than the transparently false ones of fighting terrorism and spreading democracy.

We are fighting for oil company profits.

If we were worried about energy supplies, we would bend over backwards to make the Iraqis happy like we do with the Saudis, and we would simultaneously be working to develop alternatives that aren't so military intensive to extract.