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The US Invaded Iraq For Oil

            
             Was the Bush administration's push for war with Iraq motivated by their desire to gain control of Iraq's oil reserves? The toppling of Saddam Hussein's Government will provoke regime change to a pro U.S government, which will permit the privatisation of Iraq's state controlled oil resources. This will then give U.S oil firms access to Iraq's oil resources. Under the former Iraqi regime the big U.S oil firms were barred from Iraq by U.N sanctions. Preventing them from tapping into the world's second largest pool of oil reserves. Recently the former South African president Nelson Mandela told a leading American magazine about his feelings on the United States decision to go to war with Iraq. Mandela said, "It is clearly a decision that is motivated by George W. Bush's desire to please the arms and oil industries in the United States of America." .
             Initially, we were told by the Bush administration that Iraq posed a threat to the safety and security of the United States. Bush also informed us that there is significant ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, This was a statement which was later retracted by Colin Powell. But the main reason the Bush administration gives for going to war with Iraq was that Saddam Hussein posses weapon of mass destruction. Six months on and the U.S still haven't found any evidence of W.M.D.'s.
             The Bush administration has close ties to the oil industry; both President Bush and Vice President Cheney worked in the oil business. Forty-one senior Bush administration officials were former oil company's executives or have substantial stock holdings or other financial ties to the industry. The Bush administration has also refused to increase fuel efficiency requirements for cars in the U.S because they know that the more the American people pump oil into their cars the better it is for the value of their stock in their oil companies.
             The invasion of Iraq will could also help the Bush administrations oil tycoons.


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